User`s manual

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Character Sets
User Preference Supplemental (UPS) Character Sets
A symbol set is the alphabet of a font; it is a character set that can be printed
regardless of the font characteristics designated for the print job. The default
symbol set for the fonts in the printer is the U.S. ASCII set. The U.S. ASCII
set is the base onto which other symbol set overlay sequences may be loaded.
The default UPS character set is comprised of the DEC Supplemental
character set and the ISO Latin 1 Supplemental character set. Select one of
the character sets via the front panel or the control sequence, DECAUPSS, as
described in Chapter 7.
The printer contains fourteen multinational character set overlays:
• DEC English
• DEC Dutch
• DEC Finnish
• French
• DEC French (Canadian)
• DEC Portuguese
• German
• Italian
• JIS Roman
• DEC Norwegian/Danish
• Spanish
• DEC Swedish
• DEC Swiss
• ISO Norwegian/Danish
Character set overlays contain characters and symbols that replace certain
ASCII characters to create international alphabets. The following tables list
the replacement characters used to make up language–specific symbols.
Language symbol characters (National Replacement Characters, or NRCs)
are substituted from the U.S. ASCII set at a maximum of twelve locations.