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Codepages
Resident Bitmap Fonts
The Resident Bitmap fonts don’t use different codepages; the characters are
mapped at predefined positions, defined in the table below.
See the print samples in Appendix C in the ‘Class Series Programmers
Manual’ for the reference characters.
Valid ASCII Characters for bitmap fonts:
Scalable Fonts
The scalable fonts allow codepage selection through the System Command
<STX>ySxx
, and the Label Formatting Command
ySxx
, where
xx
is a two
letter CP Identifier.
Note that on Datamax, not all fonts have an entire compliment of character
codes for a given code page.
The default codepage is (PT) PC-8 TK, Code Page 437T.
See table below for an overview of the available codepages. Additional info
and print samples can be found in the ‘Class Series Programmers Manual’,
Appendix E and I.
Codepages used by Scalable Fonts:
Font Valid ASCII Characters (decimal) Euro
Char
0 32-127 255
1, 2 32-168, 171, 172, 225 255
3, 4, 5, 6 32, 35-38, 40-58, 65-90, 128, 142-144, 146, 153, 154, 156, 157,
165, 168, 225
255
7 32-126 N/A
8 32, 48-57, 60, 62, 67, 69, 78, 83, 84, 88, 90 N/A
CPG ID Description CPG ID Description
DN ISO 60 Danish / Norwegian PT PC-8 TK, Code Page 437T
E1 ISO 8859/1 Latin 1 R8 Roman-8
E2 ISO 8859/2 Latin 2 SP ISO 17: Spanish
E5 ISO 8859/9 Latin 5 SW ISO 11: Swedish
FR ISO 69: French UK ISO 4: United Kingdom
GR ISO 21: German US ISO 6: ASCII
IT ISO 15: Italian W1 Windows 3.1 Latin 1
LG Legal WE Windows 3.1 Latin 2
PE PC-852 Latin 2 WO Windows 3.0 Latin 1
PM PC-850 Multilingual WT Windows 3.1 Latin 5
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