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Chinese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters
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14245L-003 EPL Programming Guide 12/16/13
Chinese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters
The Chinese ideographic font characters are mapped to double-byte hexadecimal address
range A1A0 to F7FFhex.
See the following pages for the codepage character mappings.
• Simplified Chinese Code Page (203 dpi) on page 368
• Simplified Chinese GBK Code Page 936 (300 dpi) on page 601
• Traditional Chinese Big5 Code Page 950 (300 dpi) on page 728
Japanese Character Sets
The printer automatically recognizes single-byte characters and double-byte characters in the
Shift-JIS codepage. The single-byte font characters are mapped to hexadecimal address range
00 to 7F hex (0-127 decimal) for 203 dpi printers and 00 to FF hex (0-255 decimal) for 300 dpi
printers.
The double-byte font characters are mapped to the hexadecimal address ranges in the
following table.
Japanese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters
The Japanese ideographic font characters are mapped to double-byte hexadecimal addresses.
See the following pages for codepage character maps.
• JIS Code Page (203 dpi) on page 338
• Shift JIS Code Page (203 dpi) on page 357
• Japanese JIS Code Page (300 dpi) on page 431
• Japanese Shift-JIS Code Page 932 (300 dpi) on page 375
Codepage
Reference
Range
From To
1st byte 2nd byte 1st byte 2nd byte
JIS 2120-7424 33 (21h) 32 (20h) 116 (74h) 36 (24h)
Shift-JIS 8140-9FFC 129(81h) 64 (40h) 159 (9Fh) 252 (FCh)
E040-EAA4 224 (E0h) 64 (40h) 234 (EAh) 164 (A4h)