Zebra Technologies 14245L-003 manual Chinese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters

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Introduction

Chinese Fonts 8 & 9 Double-Byte Ideographic Characters

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.

Codepage	Range		From			To
Reference		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)

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) on page 431

•Japanese Shift-JIS Code Page 932 (300 dpi) on page 375

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