Turkish character output on GP-F80300II

[shenol]

What should I do to print Turkish characters?

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<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
require __DIR__ . '\vendor\autoload.php';
use Mike42\Escpos\Printer;
use Mike42\Escpos\PrintConnectors\WindowsPrintConnector;

try {

    $connector = new WindowsPrintConnector("ADS");
    $printer = new Printer($connector);
    $printer -> text("Pijamalı hasta, yağız şoföre çabucak güvendi.\n");
    $printer -> cut();
    $printer -> close();
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "Couldn't print to this printer: " . $e -> getMessage() . "\n";
}

[mike42]

Could you let me know what type of printer do you have, whether it supports a code page which can encode Turkish characters, and what output you got when you ran this snippet?

The list of code pages can usually be found in the vendor documentation by printing a self-test page.

[shenol]

printer: grpinter f80300ii

[mike42]

Ok. As a quick check, I don't think printer can print Turkish characters. Your best bet would be one of these these legacy code pages-

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-9
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_857

But the vendor documentation I found lists these pages:

#	Page
0	PC437 [U.S.A.Standard Europe]
1	Katakana
2	PC850:Multilingual
3	PC860:Portuguese
4	PC863 [Canadian French]
6	PC865:Nordic
7	Greek
8	Hebrew
9	PC755:East Europe
10	Iran
16	WPC1252
17	PC866:Cyrillic 2
18	PC852:Latin2
19	PC858
20	IranII
21	Latvian

(Source: GP-80XXX Programmer Manual v6)

So to print these characters, you would need to use a work-around that involves generating images with a Unicode font. A user recently had the same problem printing Vietnamese, so you will find some great information on the issue tracker already.

I'll add a link here once that work-around is in the FAQ.

Also, if I post the script to do it, would you be willing to post back the contents of a few of these code pages to help me identify them?

[shenol]

We do not have a chance to print directly. It works with other language plugin support. It would be a great printing solution for my cloud based application. @mike42 Can you write a sample ? It did not work out.

[shenol]

Sound check :)

[mike42]

Going to close this off as there isn't anything much we can do here.

• It's not in the FAQ, but #254 is a good reference for printing characters by by rendering them on the computer and sending them as an image.
• I've posted in the escpos-printer-db for a profile for this printer, which will improve encoding if somebody wants to write it.
• This is how you can print the contents of each code page. Using that example, php escpos-character-tables.php 0 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 16 17 18 19 20 21 > foo.bin will generate a printable binary file for these code pages. A picture would be useful at receipt-print-hq/escpos-printer-db#40.