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International character set

See Appendix C, “Character set” for details.

Code page

A code page is the set of symbols and characters that your printer can
print. Your printer converts ASCII hexadecimal data according to a code
page to print symbols and characters. By supporting different code
pages, the printer can print in a variety of different languages. The
following table shows detailed information about code pages.

Code Page Name

Country

Remarks

#437

U.S.A

United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy,

Austria, Switzerland, United States, Spain

#737 Greek

Greece

Almost

80%

#772 Lithuanian

Lithuania

New

standard

#774 Lithuanian

Lithuania

#850

Multi-lingual

United Kingdom, France, germany, Italy,

Preferred by Microsoft

Austria, Switzerland, United States, Spain

#851 Greek

Greece

#852

Latin-2

Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary,

Preferred by Microsoft

Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak

Republic, Slovenia

#858

Multi-lingual with Euro

#860 Portuguese

Portugal

#861 Icelandic

Iceland

#863 Canada

French

Canada

#865

Nordic

Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

Preferred by Microsoft

#866

Russian

Russia

Preferred by Microsoft

#869 Greek

Greece

#928 Greek

Greece

for

UNIX

#1001

Arabic

Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Mainly in Arabic speaking

countries

#2001

Lithuanian-KBL

Lithuania

Commonly used for DOS

#3001 Estonian-1

Estonia

#3002

Estonian-2

Estonia

Most often used

#3011 Latvian-1

Latvia

#3012 Latvian-2

Latvia

Government

standard

#3021

Bulgarian

Bulgaria

#3031 Hebrew

Israel

#3041 Maltese

Malta

#3840 IBM-Russian

Russia,

Bulgaria

#3841

Gost

Russia

Gost: government standard

#3843 Polish

Poland

Also

called

“Mazovia”

#3844

CS2

Czech Republic

Also called “Kamenicky”

#3845 Hungarian

Hungary

#3846 Turkish

Turkey

#3847 Brazil-ABNT

#3848 Brazil-ABICOMP