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Operator’s Guide 183
CHARACTER SETS
ESC R National-Use Character Maps
ASCII:
ESC R (n)
Control:
CTRL
[R (n)
Decimal:
27 82 (n)
Hexadecimal:
1B 52 (n)
Selects a national-use character map. The selected character map
remains in effect until this control command is sent to the printer again. n
specifies the national-use character map as follows:
n Character Map n Character Map
0 United States 8 Japan
1 Japan 9 Norway
2 Germany 10 Denmark II
3 United Kingdom 11 Spain II
4 Denmark I 12 Latin America
5 Sweden 128 Hebrew
6 Italy (Epson) 129 Italy (ANSI)
7 Spain I
See Appendix D for charts showing the national-use character maps.
This command applies only to the Epson Character Set. If an IBM
Character Set is currently in use, ESC R does not take effect until the
Epson Character Set is selected from the configuration menu.
Example
REM SELECT THE GERMAN CHARACTER MAP
LPRINT CHR$(27);"R";CHR$(2);