Brother HL-Series Technical Reference Manual page 227

Revision C 16/01/96
Select international character set
EscRn
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This command selects one of the nineteen available international character sets.
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Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special
characters necessary for printing in that particular language.
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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.
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The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer's
control panel.
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The character sets available and the corresponding values of n are as follows:
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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
Esct n
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This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table
and the graphics character table.
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The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 and Brother Twinriter DP modes section of
the appendix at the end of this manual.
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Set n to 0 to select the italic character table. Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now
italic characters.
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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.
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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 16
Spanish 7
Norwegian set I 17
Norwegian set II 18
(27)(116)n <1Bh><74h>n
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