Epson 100-88002 manual Scalar Value 1st Byte 2nd Byte 3rd Byte

Unicode and Fonts

UTF-8 uses a Multiple Byte Character Sequence (MBCS) to identify the desired Unicode character. This encoding method is less straightforward but preserves some of the 8-bit character of ASCII encoding.. This method uses unique bit sequences at the MSBs of a byte to determine its location and meaning within the MBCS encoding. See the table below for more information. If UTF-8 is selected all data sent to the printer must be encoded. All command parameters over 127 must be encoded in UTF-8.

UTF-8TXT uses a Multiple Byte Character Sequence (MBCS) to identify the desired Unicode character. This encoding method is identical to UTF-8 except command parameters over 127 are not UTF-8 encoded. They must be sent unmodified as 8-bit values.

Note: Extended UTF encoding past 65534 is not supported in UTF-16 or UTF-8. Only Unicode addresses from 0 to 65534 are supported by the Epic 880TM Printer.

Scalar Value	1st Byte	2nd Byte	3rd Byte
000000000xxxxxxx	0xxxxxxx
00000yyyyyxxxxxx	110yyyyy	10xxxxxx
Zzzzyyyyyyxxxxxx	1110zzzz	10yyyyyy	10xxxxxx

NOTE: 4 byte encoding is not supported.

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