Star Micronics 150 manual Programmers Guide PcOS Series Control Codes, Character Code

Programmer's Guide		PcOS Series 150		Control Codes
			Character Sets and Code Pages
	EPOS Note: EPOS defines <n> as follows:
	<n>	Character Code Page	<n>	Character Code Page
	0	Code Page 437	3	Code Page 860
	1	Not supported	4	Code Page 863
	2	Code Page 850	5	Code Page 865
	Table 8 EPOS code page definition table
Function	Print control character
ASCII	[ESC] ^ <n>
Hexadecimal	1BH 5EH <n>
Decimal	<27> <94> <n>
IPCL	&%CC <m1> <m2> <m3>
EPOS	[ESC] ^ <n>

Description This command allows characters from 0 to 31 codes to be printed. During normal operation, characters from 0 to 31 are control characters. This command turns off the control code translation for the following character. <n> can be from 0 to 255.

Function	Redefine Character Set
ASCII	[ESC] [ S <LL> <LH> <BC> <T1L><T1H><T2L><T2H><T3L><T3H> … <TnL>
	<TnH>
Hexadecimal	1BH 5BH 40H …
Decimal	<27> <91> <64>
IPCL	none
EPOS	none
Description	This command allows an application to replace or redefine the active character
	set mapping in the printer.
Where	<LL> <LH> defines the total length of the following data:
	<LL> + 256 * <LH> = 1 + 2 * is the total number of characters to be replaced.
	<BC> is the first character in the active map to be replaced.
	<T1H> <T1L>8 is the internal address of the replacement character image.
	The mapping of a print pattern to each character address is referred to as a code
	page or character set. At any given time, the printer character set is comprised
	of 256 characters. Each character is addressed by an 8-bit value generally
	referred to as a character code. For example if you want to print an ‘A,’ the
	character would be addressed by sending a <65> decimal to the printer. There
	are 65 predefined code pages or character maps that assign characters to a
	particular address built into the printer. However, there are times when an
	application would like to redefine a character or group of characters in a code
	page. To be able to redefine characters, the Series 90PLUS Printer allows the
	map for any code page to be replaced. The “Define Character Set” command
	allows any character or group of characters to be replaced with any other
	printable character. There are over 500 printable master characters defined in
	the printer.

8The internal character map is provided in the Master Character Set Definitions Guide (PN 100-9785).

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