{"id":10506,"date":"2023-03-10T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/?p=10506"},"modified":"2023-03-10T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T00:02:43","slug":"zpl-incorrectly-printing-accented-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/zpl-incorrectly-printing-accented-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"ZPL incorrectly printing accented characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Accented letters on shipping labels are not printing correctly. For example, <em>Colis acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9s<\/em> (French for <em>Expedited parcels<\/em>) might appear as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"148\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10507\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fastest way to correct this problem usually is to insert a ZPL instruction to specify the international character set 27 at the beginning of the ZPL document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the variable that contains the ZPL code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add an Insert String function adding <em>^CI27\/r<\/em> at position 0. It should be the last function on the variable:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"214\" height=\"49\" src=\"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1.png 214w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1-150x34.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This solution requires your thermal printer to support Zebra Code Page 1252. If this does not resolve the issue, please contact support@minisoft.com and send the project and ZPL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accented letters on shipping labels are not printing correctly. For example, Colis acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9s (French for Expedited parcels) might appear as: The fastest way to correct this problem usually is to insert a ZPL instruction to specify the international character set 27 at the beginning of the ZPL document. This solution requires your thermal printer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[792,793,794,795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10510,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions\/10510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}