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CHAPTER 6 EPSON - 22 

Select international character set 

EscRn (27)(82)n 

<1Bh><52h>n 

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This command selects one of the available international character sets, refer to the printer User Guide for 
supported character sets. 

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Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special characters necessary 
for printing in that particular language. 

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The selection you make with this command does not affect any italic or graphics character table selection that 
you may have made with the 

Esc t

 command. 

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The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer's control panel.   

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The character sets available and the corresponding values of 

n

 are as follows: 

US ASCII 

0 

Japanese 

8 

French I 

1 

Norwegian 

9 

German 2 Danish 

II  10 

UK ASCII I 

3 

UK ASCII II 

13 

Danish I 

4 

French II 

14 

Swedish 5 Dutch 

  15 

Italy  

6 

South 

African  16 

Spanish 7 

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If you have selected the graphics character table with the 

Esc t 1 

command the following additional character 

sets are available. 

Norwegian set I 

17 

IBM set I 

19 

Norwegian set II 

18 

IBM set II 

20 

LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(82); CHR$(3); 'Select British char set 

Select italic / graphics character table 

Esct

n 

(27)(116)n  <1Bh><74h>n 

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This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table and the graphics 
character table. 

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The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 section of the appendix at the end of this manual. 

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Set 

n

 to 0 to select the italic character table.  Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now italic 

characters. 

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Set 

n

 to 1 to select the extended character table.  Character codes in the range 128 to 255 are now foreign 

language and graphics characters. 

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You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when you have 
selected the graphics character table.