1. Zebra Technologies Technical Support CBT
Global Printing (Unicode)
Original 08/26/05
Updated 11/3/2015

2. Global printing / Unicode
Hardware – PAX Series
V or greater
105SL
Xi Series
Z Series
S4M
V or greater
All later printers
Vxx.14.0 or greater

3. What is Unicode?

4. Unicode UNICODE.ORG link The Unicode Standard Defines:
Unicode Character Set
Encodes all characters for all languages of the world
Character Encoding Forms
UTF-32, UTF-16, UTF-8
By the numbers:
96,382 characters defined in version 4.0.1
UNICODE.ORG link

5. Unicode

6. Unicode

7. What it isn’t
Not a Font! (Requires a Unicode capable font to be loaded on printer!!!)
Swiss Link to KA1078 with details
ANDALE (Available on CDs)
Link to KA9537 with details

8. Zebra fonts Swiss721 Andale
Pan European languages including Arabic and Hebrew
Factory installed in flash for EMEA printers
Available on the Support and Downloads Page
Andale
Pan European languages plus
CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese)
Thai
Indic languages
Currently available on CDs

9. A simple script ^XA^CI0 ^FO0,0^A0,50,50^FDHELLO WORLD!^FS ^XZ
^CI= Change international font (0 = USA 1)
NEW VALUES
^CI28
^CI29
^CI30

10. ZPL Examples (^CI )
^CI28=Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) – Unicode Character Set
^CI29=Unicode (UTF-16 Big-Endian encoding) – Unicode Character Set
^CI30=Unicode (UTF-16 Little-Endian encoding) – Unicode Character Set
Latin Character “A” Byte sequence
UTF
UTF-16 BE
UTF-16 LE

11. Vietnamese example ^XA^CI28^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF
^FO0,100^A1,50,50^FDHELLO WORLD!^FS
^FO0,200^A1,50,50^FDViệt ngữ ^FS
^XZ
Note: ^CI28 command being used (UTF-8)
^CW command specifying the ANMDJ font that is stored in E: memory

12. Global Printing Example Unicode UTF-8
^XA^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF^CI28
^FO20,100^A1,50,50^FD日本語/한국어/简体中文/斏體中文^FS
^FO20,250^A1,50,50^FDQuốc ngữ/English/ภาษาไทย^FS
^XZ

13. Global Printing Example Unicode UTF-16 BE
^XA^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF^CI29
^FO100,100^A1,50,50^FDHello World!^FS
^FO100,200^A1,50,50^F8^FD ユニコード^FS
^XZ

14. Global Printing Example Unicode UTF-16 LE
^XA^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF^CI30
^FO20,100^A1,50,50^FD日本語/한국어/简体中文/斏體中文^FS
^FO20,250^A1,50,50^FDQuốc ngữ/English/ภาษาไทย^FS
^XZ

15. Global Printing Example Field Hexadecimal
Note the number of hex bytes representing each character!!!
^XA^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF^CI29
^FO100,100^A1,100,100^FH/^FD/00/48/00/65/00/6C/00/6C/00/6F/00/21^FS
^XZ
^CI29 = UTF16 BE each character two bytes
^XA^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF^CI0
^FO100,100^A1,100,100^FH+^FD C+6C+6F+21^FS
^CI0=Single Byte Encoding - U.S.A. 1 Character Set

16. H e l l o ! HEX VALUES ^CI29 UTF16-BE
^XA^CW1,E:ANMDJ.TTF^CI29
^FO100,100^A1,100,100^FH/^FD/00/48/00/65/00/6C/00/6C/00/6F/00/21^FS
^XZ
characters represented by 6 hex pairs
H e l l o !
C 006C 006F
Where can one find these values???

17. ^FP command ZPL commands ^FPV^FDHello ^FPR^FDHELLO ^FPH^FDHello OLLEH

18. ZPL commands
Justification Options Field Origin ^FOx,y,z New parameter for justification (z) Left justified Right justified Auto justification (script dependent)

19. ZPL commands
Justification Options Field Typeset ^FTx,y,z New parameter for justification (z) Left justified Right justified Auto justification (script dependent)

20. ^CI Parameters: a = desired character set Accepted Values: 0 =USA 1
2 = U.K.
3 = Holland
4 = Denmark/Norway
5 = Sweden/Finland
6 = Germany
7 = France 1
8 = France 2
9 = Italy
10 = Spain
11 = miscellaneous
12 = Japan
13 = IBM Code Page 850
14 =Double Asian encodings
15 =Shift-JIS
16 =EUC-JP
17 =Unicode
24 =Single byte encodings
26 =Asian with ASCII Transparency
28 =UTF-8
29 =UTF-16BE
30 =UTF-16LE

21. Unicode info.