I need to be able to print Hebrew characters on my Epson TM-T20ii. I am trying to get my printer to switch to character code page 36(PC862) using
ESC t36
for some reason the printer is switching to code page 3 and then printing the number 6.
Is there a way to let the printer know that the 6 is part of my command?
If you know of a different workaround please comment below.
Thanks
You are making a mistake, you aren't meant to replace n with an actual number.
The proper syntax in your case would be ←t$
Explanation: the manual says "ESC t n", n referring to the page sheet, however you don't replace n with a number rather with the ASCII character n, so in your example 36 = $ because $ is the 36th character on the ASCII table.
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I am trying to print to a GT800 Zebra printer thru serial port.
I am using ZPL. I want to control the width which is fine in auto mode. To address that in the >^BC> command I am using Auto mode as no other size setting under ^BY works
Following is the code
^XA
^MMT
^PW831
^LL400
^LS0
^BY2,,76^FT225,141^BCN,76,Y,Y,N,A
^FD:RNIP29200082034^FS
^FO225,157^A#N,18,10,E:CAL002.FNT^FD26030-0892R^FS
^FO383,157^A#N,18,10,E:CAL002.FNT^FD08.01.20 12:00PM^FS
^FO225,187^A#N,18,10,E:CAL002.FNT^FDLAMP-DR RH^FS
^FO453,187^A#N,18,10,E:CAL002.FNT^FDXBA3^FS
^PQ1,0,0,Y
^XZ
There is a funny problem. If the ^BC mode = A then if three zeros come together gives issues for eg ABCD29200082034 it prints ABCD29200 and does not complete the barcode. But the other lines are getting printed. But if the data is ABCD29200182034 , there are no issues.
If BC mode = U then even if the code is ABCD29200182034 it prints 292001820347. Note 7 is added in the end.
I am clueless as to what is this issue. I remember facing this same issue in Honeywell printer too once.
Thanks
NOTE : I replaced the 000 with 111 and the problem persists.
ZPL Manual says the following
A= Automatic Mode :This analyzes the data sent and automatically determines the best packing method. The full ASCII character set can be used in the ^FD
statement — the printer determines when to shift subsets. A string of
four or more numeric digits causes an automatic shift to Subset C.
Note , it says a string of four or more numeric digits causes an automatic shift to subset C, but when the same string is 290010 it has no issues. I am really lost
I'm attempting to construct a regex string in Swift 4 that gets characters at the start of a line where some are known and others aren't.
Let's say I've got a text file with line breaks for each word that reads as follows:
pucker
tuckered
duckerdinger
sucker punch
I'd like to get every word that contains "cker" in it that's 1 to 8 characters long.
I'm attempting to use this statement ^..cker..{1,8} as my RegEx string. All I'm getting is a partial match in Patterns (a Mac App), but Regex101.com's saying no match, and most importantly, Xcode says I'm using an invalid regex. I've also tried ^(..cker..) and a bazillion other variations.
What am I screwing up and how do I fix it? What I'm trying to do seems like it would be super simple, but I've wasted more time than I care to admit fiddling with it.
Update:
This has been the best I've been able to get so far...
"\\b..cker..", but I'm only able to get words that are exactly 8 characters long. I'd like to capture words that contain "cker" that are the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th letters while capturing words up to 8 characters long.
Try this regex:
\b(?=.*cker)[a-zA-Z]{1,8}\b
Click for Demo
Explanation:
\b - matches a word boundary
(?=.*cker) - Positive Lookahead to make sure our string should contain the character sequence cker
[a-zA-Z]{1,8} - Matches 1 to 8 occurrences of a letter
\b - matches a word boundary
text.scan(/\"[\d\w\s\+\-\*\/]*\"/)
I'm simply looking to find any thing within quotations that can contain letters, numbers, spaces, plus, minus, star, or forward slash. Everything works great in console. Each of the following works in a browser:
"abc"
"123"
"x-1" or "x - 1"
"x/1" or "x / 1"
But the plus sign and star fail in a browser (despite working fine in console with the same regex). Does anyone have any ideas?
Edit #1: I'm performing a quick gsub to add some formatting to the results of the scan. If the quotations have a plus or star in them, they don't even get picked up by the scan. The same code and text pasted in console works just fine.
Edit #2: I figured out a better way to frame this question without extraneous details and got the answer. "Why can't I perform a gsub on each of the results from a scan if the result contains regex special characters?"
Turned out that this problem was related to regexp string insertion (/#{whatever}/) not escaping special characters - manually escaping clears it up (/#{Regexp.escape(whatever)}/). See this question for a full example/explanation.
I don't know what do you mean "work in browser" but I'm making an assumption that you're trying to parse an URL. In URL the + & * signs can be converted to %2B & %2A respectively.
Try this regexp:
/"[(\d\w\s\+\-\*\/|%2B|%2A)]+"/
...or decode URL before parsing.
Why i need to use it is because for some printers using TPrinter prints some weird hieroglyph at the beginning of the printable area.
My problem is that if i send some commands, nothing happens.
ESC E (#27 #69) - Sending this escape sequence didn't work as i expected. It removed first letter and rest of the string made bold. eg. Hello -> ello. After i changed it to ESC E ESC (#27 #69 #27), it worked fine. This example i managed to figure out, but...
trying to select character table "ESC t n" (#27 #116 n), to make "õäöü" work. This command just doesn't work. Nothing happens! And this command is supported by esc/p, esc/p 2 and 9-pin esc/p, so it should work just fine.
Manual can be found here.
If anyone has ever needed to use esc/p commands then maybe one can shed some light how to work with them!
Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
In my previous post i asked more or less the same question though answers were about how did i send commands to the printer. (I'll change my question there according to what was the answers!)
I accepted Ken's answer, because he claimed that the way i transferred the commands wasn't the best and i got it to work with Escape command.
The problem was that after trying to use my program with another printer, it didn't work as expected, because it uses TPrinter.Begindoc and EndDoc.
So actually i must use the other solution that Rob Kennedy helped me with!
EDIT 2:
As it turned out, i used wrong manual, where commands are little different (though still supporting esc/p as it proclaims). Thank you all for your help!
PS!
I still have a question: I need a character table where
245 = õ
228 = ä
246 = ö
252 = ü
which is iso 8859. But in manual there is no such character table or any similar to it. Should i do some string manipulation and replace eg 228 to 132 or does anyone know any better approuch?
I keep it unanswered for a while, and then accept stukelly's answer.
Based on your previous question, I think you are using the wrong commands to control the EPSON TM-T70 receipt printer. After some research I found the product brochure and POSMicro both mention ESC/POS.
The ESC/POS command for turning bold on and off requires has a third value, as follows.
ASCII ESC E n
Hex 1B 45 n
Decimal 27 69 n
Where n is 0 or 1, turning bold off or on.
Here is a detailed ESC/POS reference.
Could anybody help me make a proper regular expression from a bunch of text in Ruby. I tried a lot but I don't know how to handle variable length titles.
The string will be of format <sometext>title:"<actual_title>"<sometext>. I want to extract actual_title from this string.
I tried /title:"."/ but it doesnt find any matches as it expects a closing quotation after one variable from opening quotation. I couldn't figure how to make it check for variable length of string. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
. matches any single character. Putting + after a character will match one or more of those characters. So .+ will match one or more characters of any sort. Also, you should put a question mark after it so that it matches the first closing-quotation mark it comes across. So:
/title:"(.+?)"/
The parentheses are necessary if you want to extract the title text that it matched out of there.
/title:"([^"]*)"/
The parentheses create a capturing group. Inside is first a character class. The ^ means it's negated, so it matches any character that's not a ". The * means 0 or more. You can change it to one or more by using + instead of *.
I like /title:"(.+?)"/ because of it's use of lazy matching to stop the .+ consuming all text until the last " on the line is found.
It won't work if the string wraps lines or includes escaped quotes.
In programming languages where you want to be able to include the string deliminator inside a string you usually provide an 'escape' character or sequence.
If your escape character was \ then you could write something like this...
/title:"((?:\\"|[^"])+)"/
This is a railroad diagram. Railroad diagrams show you what order things are parsed... imagine you are a train starting at the left. You consume title:" then \" if you can.. if you can't then you consume not a ". The > means this path is preferred... so you try to loop... if you can't you have to consume a '"' to finish.
I made this with https://regexper.com/#%2Ftitle%3A%22((%3F%3A%5C%5C%22%7C%5B%5E%22%5D)%2B)%22%2F
but there is now a plugin for Atom text editor too that does this.