[Solved] Printing euro symbol in ticket

[lainz]

Hi, we use ESC / POS printer and we need to print the euro symbol.

Any ideas on how to configure that, currently we use:

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1. escMultiLang = chr(27) + chr(116) + chr(39); //ISO_8859_1

But in the ticket the euro symbol looks like this (attached image).

[Kays]

Hi, we use ESC / POS printer and we need to print the euro symbol.

I think this is really hardware specific, how and what kind of output is supported. I suggest to print a sheet, a table enumerating all chr(0) to chr(255). There’s probably a € already included without any escape sorcery. Or overstrike approximation ('C', backspace, '=').

[jesusr]

Hi, we use ESC / POS printer and we need to print the euro symbol.

Any ideas on how to configure that, currently we use:

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1. escMultiLang = chr(27) + chr(116) + chr(39); //ISO_8859_1

But in the ticket the euro symbol looks like this (attached image).

If the printer faithfully follows the iso-8859-1 encoding, then it's doing right because iso-8859-1 has no euro sign. You need to convert the UTF-8 characters that Lazarus use to any printer supported encoding that has the euro sign (iso-8859-15 has it at the $A4 position and windows-1252 has it at the $80 position). The LConvEncoding unit makes this easy.

[SymbolicFrank]

In my experience, this differs from printer to printer, what mode it is running in and the selected font. Read the manual.

[winni]

Hi!

There was a temporary solution for Windows when the Euro was introduced:

The € sign was at #127.

Try that.

Winni

[lainz]

If the printer faithfully follows the iso-8859-1 encoding, then it's doing right because iso-8859-1 has no euro sign. You need to convert the UTF-8 characters that Lazarus use to any printer supported encoding that has the euro sign (iso-8859-15 has it at the $A4 position and windows-1252 has it at the $80 position). The LConvEncoding unit makes this easy.

Thanks, Windows 1252 did the trick

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1. escMultiLang2 = chr(27) + chr(116) + chr(16); //WPC_1252