andrey-ushakov / esc_pos_utils

Basic Flutter/Dart classes for ESC/POS printing
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How to print chinese characters #96

Closed waqadArshad closed 1 year ago

waqadArshad commented 1 year ago

How to print Chinese characters from my thermal printer.

waqadArshad commented 1 year ago

You need to go to capabilities.json -- for me the path was: C:\Flutter\flutter 3.3.1\flutter.pub-cache\hosted\pub.dartlang.org\esc_pos_utils-1.1.0\lib\resources). This is the package file.

The default section looks like this:

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And in the default section, add the following in the codePages map:

 "253": "UTF-8",

Now in the file it would look something like this:

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after this, go to your flutter code and add this:

    final profile = await CapabilityProfile.load(name: 'default');
    final generator = Generator(PaperSize.mm80, profile);
    bytes += generator.setGlobalCodeTable('UTF-8');

after that add the following package in your pubspec.yaml file:

charset_converter: ^2.1.1

now, do something like this:

bytes += generator.textEncoded(
        await CharsetConverter.encode("UTF-8", 'Size 1 Product 1: 招牌韮黃鍋貼 , Signature: Pork W/ Yellow Chive'),
        styles: const PosStyles(align: PosAlign.left, bold: true));

Remember to use UTF-8 and also remember to use this same encoding setting for your printer:

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