7-bit / 8-bit / Unicode character sets

MT9750 supports the following character sets:

7 Bit	8 Bit and Unicode
International Danish German English French Italian Swedish Spanish	Latin alphabet no. 1 (Latin West) ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet no. 2 (Latin East) ISO 8859-2 Latin/Cyrillic ISO 8859-5 Latin/Greek ISO 8859-7 Latin alphabet no. 5 (Latin West, Turkish) ISO 8859-9 Latin alphabet no. 9 (Latin West, with Euro symbol and all special characters for French, Estonian and Finnish) ISO 8859-15

MT9750 does not support a function that enables you to load character sets from the host.

Unicode support

Unicode mode enables characters from different character sets to be displayed in a form (example: Greek and Cyrillic characters).

Unicode is an international standard that has the long-term aim of defining a digital coding for every character or text element from every known script. Characters from the most important ISO character sets (such as the ISO standards from the 8859 series) have a 1:1 correspondence in Unicode, which means that an unaltered result is obtained when converting from one to the other and back.

Unicode values are displayed using the following notation: U+xxyy

Prerequisites for Unicode

• Selection of Unicode and DSS Type 9763 under Configuration > Terminal Settings (DSS) > Configure Terminal in the menu

• Host sends the Unicode flag.

  

Advantages of Unicode

• Simultaneous display of characters from different character sets

• Copy/Paste operations using Unicode characters

• Printing of Unicode characters

• P key editor adds Unicode characters to the P key memory

• Full support for ISO-compliant Unicode characters (ISO 8859-x; x=1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 15)

• Support for some non-ISO8859-compliant characters

  However, printing of non-ISO8859-compliant characters is not possible.

More information about Unicode can be found in the “Unicode in BS2000” manual [4].