Introduction
Chinese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters
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Chinese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters
The Chinese ideographic font characters are mapped to double-byte hexadecimal address
range A1A0 to F7FFhex.
See the following pages for the codepage character mappings.
Simplified Chinese Code Page (203 dpi) on page 368
Simplified Chinese GBK Code Page 936 (300 dpi) on page 601
Traditional Chinese Big5 Code Page 950 (300 dpi) on page 728
Japanese Character Sets
The printer automatically recognizes single-byte characters and double-byte characters in the
Shift-JIS codepage. The single-byte font characters are mapped to hexadecimal address range
00 to 7F hex (0-127 decimal) for 203 dpi printers and 00 to FF hex (0-255 decimal) for 300 dpi
printers.
The double-byte font characters are mapped to the hexadecimal address ranges in the
following table.
Japanese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters
The Japanese ideographic font characters are mapped to double-byte hexadecimal addresses.
See the following pages for codepage character maps.
JIS Code Page (203 dpi) on page 338
Shift JIS Code Page (203 dpi) on page 357
Japanese JIS Code Page (300 dpi) onpage 431
Japanese Shift-JIS Code Page 932 (300 dpi) onpage 375
Codepage
Reference Range
From To
1st byte 2nd byte 1st byte 2nd byte
JIS 2120-7424 33 (21h) 32 (20h) 116 (74h) 36 (24h)
Shift-JIS 8140-9FFC 129(81h) 64 (40h) 159 (9Fh) 252 (FCh)
E040-EAA4 224 (E0h) 64 (40h) 234 (EAh) 164 (A4h)