Specifications

Revision C 16/01/96
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Select international character set
EscRn (27)(82)n <1Bh><52h>n
This command selects one of the nineteen available international character sets.
Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special
characters necessary for printing in that particular language.
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.
The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer’s
control panel.
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
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
This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table
and the graphics character table.
The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 and Brother Twinriter DP modes section of
the appendix at the end of this manual.
Set n to 0 to select the italic character table. Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now
italic characters.
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.
You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when
you have selected the graphics character table.