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Intermec Fingerprint v7.61 – Programmer’s Reference Manual Ed. 7288
Chapter 4
4. Character Sets
This chapter contains the various single-byte character sets, that can be
selected using the NASC statement. Printouts are made using the font “Swiss
721 BT”. Other fonts may not include all characters listed in the character
sets. Double-byte character sets are not included, but are available separately
on special request. For more information on character sets and fonts, refer to
the Intermec Fingerprint, Font Reference Manual.
The following information applies to all single-byte character sets:
• Characters between ASCII 0 decimal and ASCII 31 decimal are
unprintable control characters as listed below.
• Characters between ASCII 32 decimal and ASCII 127 decimal can always
be printed, regardless of 7-bit or 8-bit communication protocol, provided
that the selected font contains the characters in question.
• Characters between ASCII 125 decimal and ASCII 255 decimal can only
be printed if the selected font contains the characters in question and an
8-bit communication protocol is used. If you use 7-bit communication,
select another national character set (see NASC statement) or use a MAP
statement to remap a character set.
• If a character, which does not exist in the selected font, is used, an
error condition will occur.
Non-printable control characters (ASCII 00-31 dec)
00 NUL Null 16 DLE Data link escape
01 SOH Start of heading 17 DC1 Device control one
02 STX Start of text 18 DC2 Device control two
03 ETX End of text 19 DC3 Device control three
04 EOT End of transmission 20 DC4 Device control four
05 ENQ Enquiry 21 NAK Negative acknowledge
06 ACK Acknowledge 22 SYN Syncronous idle
07 BEL Bell 23 ETB End of transmission block
08 BS Backspace 24 CAN Cancel
09 HT Horizontal tabulation 25 EM End of medium
10 LF Line feed 26 SUB Substitute
11 VT Vertical tabulation 27 ESC Escape
12 FF Form feed 28 FS File separator
13 CR Carriage Return 29 GS Group separator
14 SO Shift out 30 RS Record separator
15 SI Shift in 31 US Unit separator
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