directLABEL NT
Text printer driver for ASCII printers
Text output can be created using different codepages (charmaps). In Europe, Windows systems use normally 2 codepages, ANSI and OEM. The ANSI codepage corresponds to the normal Windows characters, used on the screen and in printouts. The OEM codepage is used inside the MS-DOS shell and together with programs running in MS-DOS compatibility mode. Both codepages depends on the installed windows system, but in Europe the codepages 850 and 437 are used widely.
directLABEL NT supports multilingual usage of codepages
Which codepage shall be used during creation of text files can be configured inside directLABEL NT. All codepages installed on the Windows system are supported. directLABEL NT uses 16bit Unicode in the internal representation of characters, so that any character defined on a system can be printed out.
Custom charmaps
In addition a custom charmap supports special cases, enabling printing to ASCII printers having none or an inadequate printer driver. With the custom charmap, every display character can be mapped to every binary code. A further feature enables sending control codes during printer events as "New page" or "Start of Printjob".
List of supported codepages
| Codepage | Usage | Language |
|---|---|---|
| ANSI | Standard | Actual Windows codepage (Default) |
| OEM | Standard | Actual MS-DOS codepage (normally Codepage 850) |
| ASCII | Standard | 7-Bit ASCII, ä ö ü are replaced with phonem. |
| 037 | EBCDIC | |
| 437 | OEM | MS-DOS United States |
| 500 | EBCDIC "500V1" | |
| 708 | OEM | Arabic (ASMO 708) |
| 709 | OEM | Arabic (ASMO 449+, BCON V4) |
| 710 | OEM | Arabic (Transparent Arabic) |
| 720 | OEM | Arabic (Transparent ASMO) |
| 737 | OEM | Greek (formerly 437G) |
| 775 | OEM | Baltic |
| 850 | OEM | MS-DOS Multilingual (Latin I) |
| 852 | OEM | MS-DOS Slavic (Latin II) |
| 855 | OEM | IBM Cyrillic (primarily Russian) |
| 857 | OEM | IBM Turkish |
| 860 | OEM | MS-DOS Portuguese |
| 861 | OEM | MS-DOS Icelandic |
| 862 | OEM | Hebrew |
| 863 | OEM | MS-DOS Canadian-French |
| 864 | OEM | Arabic |
| 865 | OEM | MS-DOS Nordic |
| 866 | OEM | MS-DOS Russian |
| 869 | OEM | IBM Modern Greek |
| 874 | OEM | Thai |
| 875 | OEM | EBCDIC 932 Japan |
| 936 | OEM | Chinese (PRC, Singapore) |
| 949 | OEM | Korean |
| 950 | OEM | Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong) |
| 1026 | EBCDIC 1200 Unicode (BMP of ISO 10646) | |
| 1250 | Windows 3.1 Eastern European | |
| 1251 | Windows 3.1 Cyrillic | |
| 1252 | ANSI | Windows 3.1 US (ANSI) |
| 1253 | Windows 3.1 Greek | |
| 1254 | Windows 3.1 Turkish | |
| 1255 | Hebrew | |
| 1256 | Arabic | |
| 1257 | Baltic | |
| 1361 | Korean (Johab) | |
| 10000 | Macintosh Roman | |
| 10001 | Macintosh Japanese | |
| 10006 | Macintosh Greek I | |
| 10007 | Macintosh Cyrillic | |
| 10029 | Macintosh Latin 2 | |
| 10079 | Macintosh Icelandic | |
| 10081 | Macintosh Turkish | |
| 65000 | UTF-7 | |
| 65001 | UTF-8 |
Note: Any used codepage must be installed on the system before usage together with directLABEL NT.
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