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Appendix i, Symbol sets and character maps – Datamax-O'Neil DPL Programmer’s Manual User Manual

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Appendix I – Symbol Sets and Character Maps

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Appendix I

Symbol Sets and Character Maps


Symbol Set Selection

Scalable fonts are mapped through a symbol set sometimes referred to as a “code page”.
This mapping allows the host application to select a variety of characters to match the
application. For example in the code page (CP), character code 0xE4 causes character to

be printed. In CP E7, the character code 0xE4 causes to be printed. Each of the CPs allows

the host application to “emulate” a character set for their application. Datamax-O’Neil

printers that support scalable fonts contain either a standard or an enhanced group of CPs
as defined below. The CP (symbol set) is selected using a DPL Command, ySxx, where
xx is the two letter CP Identifier.

In the following table, the checkmark symbol ( ) is used to indicate a full compliment of

characters, while “Part” indicates a partial compliment of characters and “X” indicates an

absence of characters for the given code page.

Single Byte Code Pages

Code Page

Identifier

Font Format

Description

MicroType

[2]

True

Type

Datamax

HP

(PCL)

CG

Triumvirate

CG

Times

AR 8V

X

[1]

Arabic-8

CP 3R

Part

[1]

PC Cyrillic

D1 11L

X

X

ITC Zapf Dingbats/100

D2 12L

X

X

ITC Zapf Dingbats/200

D3 13L

X

X

ITC Zapf Dingbats/300

DN 0D

Part Part

ISO 60 Danish /

Norwegian

DS 10L

X

X

PS ITC Zapf Dingbats

DT 7J

DeskTop

E1 0N

ISO 8859/1 Latin 1

E2 2N

ISO 8859/2 Latin 2

E5 5N

ISO 8859/9 Latin 5

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