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Chapter 6 Setting Up the Printer
11. Character Set Selection, cont.
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Suppose you order the printer to print the character ASCII 124
dec. Depending on the selected character set, ASCII 124 dec. will
generate the following:
• |, according to the Roman 8 character set,
• ù, according to the French character set
• ñ, according to the Spanish set, etc.
In general, the Western European (Latin) character sets (numbers
-2 to 81 and number 351) are the same, with the exception of the
few national characters. Each of the remaining character sets are
specifi c to a limited number of languages, and should be used in
conjunction with fonts for those languages.
A special case is the standard fonts OCR-A BT, OCR-B 10 Pitch
BT, and Zapf Dingbats BT. Before using any of these fonts for
the printing of text or bar code interpretations, you must switch
to their respective character sets, and switch back again to the
original character set before selecting another font.
Choose the character set which best matches your data equip-
ment and printout requirements. If any of the characters in this
set do not have the ASCII value that you require, the MAP
command can be used to assign that character to a different
ASCII value (see Chapter 6.10).
The NASC setting neither reset by PRINTFEED|PF, nor by
switching the printer off. Once a NASC command has been
issued, it affects the printed appearance of characters in any
subsequent text fi eld, but not in those text fi elds which have
already been processed and stored in the print buffer. The NASC
setting can be changed several times in one label, which allows
labels to be multilingual.
Similarly, the NASC setting determines the appearance of the
human readable portion of bar codes. The pattern of the bars in a
bar code is determined by the ASCII values of the input data, and
so is not affected by the NASC setting.
User-defi ned character sets can be created and stored in the
printer, and separate commands exist to control the appearance of
Asian characters. These are discussed in Chapter 9.2.
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