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Chapter 5-Setting Up the Printer 5.13 Selecting Character Set The NASC instruction is used to select a character set that decides how the various characters will be printed. This instruction makes it possible to adapt the printer to various national standards, see Chapter 9. NASC is one of the following numbers: 1: Roman 8 (default) -1: PCMAP 33: French -2: ANSI 34: Spanish 850: MS-DOS Latin 1 39: Italian 851: MS-DOS Greek 1 44: English 852: MS-DOS Latin 2 46: Swedish 855: MS-DOS Cyrillic 47: Norwegian 857: MS-DOS Turkish 49: German 81: Japanese Latin 351: Portuguese 1250: Windows Latin 2 1251: Windows Cyrillic 1252: Windows Latin 1 1253: Windows Greek 1254: Windows Latin 5 1257: Windows Baltic Rim Suppose you order the printer to print the character ASCII 124 dec. ASCII 124 will generate the character "|" according to the Roman 8 character set, "ù" according to the French character set and ñ according to the Spanish set, etc. The same applies to a number of special national characters, whereas digits 0-9 and characters A-Z, a-z plus most punctuation marks are the same in all sets. Check the character set tables in Chapter 10 and select the set that best matches your data equipment and printout requirements. If none of the sets matches your requirements exactly, select the one that comes closest. Then, you can make final corrections by means of MAP instructions, see Chapter 6.12. Text on labels will be printed according to the selected character set. However, instructions concerning the printable label image, that already has been processed before the NASC instruction is executed, will not be affected. This implies that labels may be multilingual. The pattern of the bars reflects the ASCII values of the input data and is not affected by a NASC instruction. The bar code interpretation (the human readable characters below the bar pattern) is affected by a NASC instruction. However, the interpretation of bar codes, that have been processed and are stored in the print buffer, will not be affected. 62 Intermec Direct Protocol v.8.60-Programmer's Reference Manual

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Intermec Direct Protocol v.8.60—Programmer’s Reference Manual
Chapter 5—Setting Up the Printer
5.13 Selecting Character Set
°e
NASC
instruction is used to select a character set that decides how the
various characters will be printed. °is instruction makes it possible to
adapt the printer to various national standards, see Chapter 9.
NASC <character set number>
<character set number> is one of the following numbers:
1:
Roman 8 (default)
-1:
PCMAP
1250:
Windows Latin 2
33:
French
-2:
ANSI
1251:
Windows Cyrillic
34:
Spanish
850:
MS-DOS Latin 1
1252:
Windows Latin 1
39:
Italian
851:
MS-DOS Greek 1
1253:
Windows Greek
44:
English
852:
MS-DOS Latin 2
1254:
Windows Latin 5
46:
Swedish
855:
MS-DOS Cyrillic
1257:
Windows Baltic Rim
47:
Norwegian
857:
MS-DOS Turkish
49:
German
81:
Japanese Latin
351:
Portuguese
Suppose you order the printer to print the character ASCII 124 dec.
ASCII 124 will generate the character “|” according to the Roman 8
character set, “ù” according to the French character set and ñ according
to the Spanish set, etc. °e same applies to a number of special national
characters, whereas digits 0-9 and characters A-Z, a-z plus most
punctuation marks are the same in all sets.
Check the character set tables in Chapter 10 and select the set that best
matches your data equipment and printout requirements.
If none of the sets matches your requirements exactly, select the one that
comes closest. °en, you can make final corrections by means of
MAP
instructions, see Chapter 6.12.
Text on labels will be printed according to the selected character set.
However, instructions concerning the printable label image, that already
has been processed before the
NASC
instruction is executed, will not be
affected. °is implies that labels may be multilingual.
°e pattern of the bars reflects the ASCII values of the input data and
is not affected by a
NASC
instruction. °e bar code interpretation (the
human readable characters below the bar pattern) is affected by a
NASC
instruction. However, the interpretation of bar codes, that have been
processed and are stored in the print buffer, will not be affected.