Star Micronics LC-500 user manual International character set, Code

International character set

See Appendix C, “Character set” for details.

Code page

A code page is the set of symbols and characters that your printer can print. Your printer converts ASCII hexadecimal data according to a code page to print symbols and characters. By supporting different code pages, the printer can print in a variety of different languages. The following table shows detailed information about code pages.

Code Page	Name	Country	Remarks
#437	U.S.A	United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy,
		Austria, Switzerland, United States, Spain
#737	Greek	Greece	Almost 80%
#772	Lithuanian	Lithuania	New standard
#774	Lithuanian	Lithuania
#850	Multi-lingual	United Kingdom, France, germany, Italy,	Preferred by Microsoft
		Austria, Switzerland, United States, Spain
#851	Greek	Greece
#852	Latin-2	Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary,	Preferred by Microsoft
		Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak
		Republic, Slovenia
#858	Multi-lingual with Euro
#860	Portuguese	Portugal
#861	Icelandic	Iceland
#863	Canada French	Canada
#865	Nordic	Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden	Preferred by Microsoft
#866	Russian	Russia	Preferred by Microsoft
#869	Greek	Greece
#928	Greek	Greece	for UNIX
#1001	Arabic	Egypt, Saudi Arabia	Mainly in Arabic speaking
			countries
#2001	Lithuanian-KBL	Lithuania	Commonly used for DOS
#3001	Estonian-1	Estonia
#3002	Estonian-2	Estonia	Most often used
#3011	Latvian-1	Latvia
#3012	Latvian-2	Latvia	Government standard
#3021	Bulgarian	Bulgaria
#3031	Hebrew	Israel
#3041	Maltese	Malta
#3840	IBM-Russian	Russia, Bulgaria
#3841	Gost	Russia	Gost: government standard
#3843	Polish	Poland	Also called “Mazovia”
#3844	CS2	Czech Republic	Also called “Kamenicky”
#3845	Hungarian	Hungary
#3846	Turkish	Turkey
#3847	Brazil-ABNT
#3848	Brazil-ABICOMP

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