Select International Character Set - Brother HL-1050 Technical Reference Manual

02/08/2010

Select international character set

EscRn
This command selects one of the available international character sets, refer to the printer User Guide for
supported character sets.
Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special characters necessary
for printing in that particular language.
The selection you make with this command does not affect any italic or graphics character table selection
that you may have made with the Esc t command.
The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer's control panel.
The character sets available and the corresponding values of n are as follows:
If you have selected the graphics character table with the Esc t 1 command the following additional character
sets are available.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(82); CHR$(3); 'Select British char set
Select italic / graphics character table
Esctn
This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table and the graphics
character table.
The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 section of the appendix at the end of this manual.
Set n to 0 to select the italic character table. Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now italic
characters.
Set n to 1 to select the extended character table. Character codes in the range 128 to 255 are now foreign
language and graphics characters.
You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when you have
selected the graphics character table.
(27)(82)n <1Bh><52h>n
US ASCII 0 Japanese
French I 1 Norwegian
German 2 Danish II
UK ASCII I 3 UK ASCII II
Danish I 4 French II
Swedish 5 Dutch
Italy 6 South African
Spanish 7
(27)(116)n <1Bh><74h>n
CHAPTER 6 EPSON - 22
8
9
10
13
14
15
16
Norwegian set I 17
Norwegian set II 18
IBM set I 19
IBM set II 20