Ideographic and pictographic Asian language fonts have large character sets with thousands of characters that support single language code pages.
To lend support for the large Asian character sets, the industry adopted a double-byte (67840 maximum) character system instead of the single-byte characters (256 maximum) used by Latin-based language characters to address large font sets.
Unicode was later invented to address multiple languages with a single font set. Unicode fonts support one or more code points (compare these to code page character maps). They are accessed through a standard method which resolves character mapping conflicts.
The ZPL programming language supports Unicode. Both of the printer’s programming languages support the large pictographic double-byte character Asian font sets.
The number of fonts that can be downloaded is dependent upon the amount of printer flash memory not already in use and the size of the font(s) to be downloaded to the printer.
Some Unicode fonts such as the Andale font (22 MB) offered by Zebra and the MS Arial Unicode font (23 MB) offered by Microsoft take up considerable space in the printer's storage locations. These large font sets typically support a large number of languages.
