^CI

Zebra printers can print fonts using international character sets: U.S.A.1, U.S.A.2, UK, Holland, Denmark/Norway, Sweden/Finland, Germany, France 1, France 2, Italy, Spain, and several other sets, including the Unicode character set.

A character within a font can be remapped to a different numerical position.

In x.14 version of firmware and later, this command allows character remapping when the parameter

a =

0-13.

Format:

^CIa,s1,d1,s2,d2,...

1. The encoding is controlled by the conversion table (

*.DAT

). The correct table must be present for the conversion to function. The table generated by ZTools™ is the TrueType font's internal encoding (Unicode).

2. Shift-JIS encoding converts Shift-JIS to JIS and then looks up the JIS conversion in

JIS.DAT

. This table must be present for Shift-JIS to function.

3. The

^CI17

command has been deprecated, along with the

^F8

and

^F16

commands that are required for the

^CI17

command to function. The recommended replacement is the

^CI28

-

30

commands.

4. Supports ASCII transparency for Asian encodings. 7F and less are treated as single-byte characters. 80 to FE is treated as the first byte of a 2-byte character 8000 to FEFF in the encoding table for Unicode.

80 to FF could mean a quad byte in GB18030. The

^CI26

command can also be used to support the GB 18030 and Big5 HKSCS encodings. The GB 18030 uses the

GB18030.DAT

encoding table and BIG5 HKSCS uses the

BIG5HK.DAT

encoding table.

The

^CI17

command has been deprecated, along with the

^F8

and

^F16

commands that are required for the

^CI17

command to function. The recommended replacement is the

^CI28-30

commands.

We recommend that a

^CI

command (or Unicode BOM) is included at the beginning of each ZPL script. This is important when ZPL scripts with different encodings are being sent to a single printer. To assist in the interleaving of encoding schemes, the printer maintains two encoding states (

^CI0

-

28

and

^CI29

-

30

). It automatically acknowledges when it should switch encoding states, allowing it to distinguish between encodings, and maintains a

^CI

for each, but endianness is shared.

Example:

This example remaps the Euro symbol (21) decimal to the dollar sign value (36) decimal. When the dollar sign character is sent to the printer, the Euro symbol prints:

The font selected determines the shape and resolution of the printed symbol.

Comments:

The space character cannot be remapped for any font.