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intermec pd43 not able to print characters like é

I use java to prepare intermec code (Direct Protocol). Special characters like é,ô,Ö are not printing, rather it prints these char.s as û`

"FONT \"Swiss 721 BT\", 24, 10\n" +

"DIR 4\n"+

"ALIGN 7\n" +

"NASC 34\n" +

"PRPOS 40,40\n" +

"PRTXT \"é è ô Ö ç à î\"\n" +

"PRINTFEED\n" +

"CLEAR\n";

Verified that the font is installed on my intermec printer.

Solution

  • When you use Java to create the string to send to the printer, then you likely are sending UTF-8 encoded data to the printer. So you must set the printer to accept UTF-8 characters using the NASC command as follows: NASC "UTF-8".