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7.1 Vietnamese 8 bit character set (VSCII) Addendum
The Datamax-O’Neil 2000i printers support resident Vietnamese (VSCII) character set. The VSCII characters are
designed using 16H x 8W dot matrix. The character set is arranged per VSCII character code table as shown in FIGURE
1.
Figure (1)
Datamax-O’Neil - VSCII Character Set Layout and Character Codes
VSCII Print Mode Operation
The 2000i defaults to standard Datamax-O’Neil International character set and maximum of 40 characters can be printed
in this default mode.
To select the VSCII font table the Host Application issues <esc ‘F5’> command string. All the characters following this
command string are printed using the VSCII font table.
Datamax-O’Neil command to select Vietnamese VSCII font is: ESC ‘F’ ‘5’
Since the VSCII fonts use 16Hx 8W dot matrix, it is possible to fit up to 30 VSCII characters per line on the S2000i. The
printer truncates the lines holding greater then 30 characters.
It is recommended that the host application should limit each line to 30 characters and terminating each line with Carriage
Return and Line Feed control characters.
The Standard VSCII characters map from character code (0x20) to (0xFF).
In addition to these 224 standard characters, 6 special VSCII characters are saved in the control code section. These
characters are shown in TABLE 1.
