Zebra printer: how to print UTF-8 special character

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Roberto Canini picture Roberto Canini · Aug 29, 2014 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

I need to print label with special character like degree (°). I'm using qz print applet on my website. How i can say to applet that i'm going to print UtF-8 character? Because it doesn't print correctly. Thanks!

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Marcelo Camargo picture Marcelo Camargo · Aug 29, 2014

Well, you need to escape characters above ASCII by putting ^FH (Field Hexadecimal Indicator) before any ^FD field that might contain an UTF char and you also need to prefix the UTF Hex code with an underscore. Like happens in this other question: Unicode characters on ZPL printer

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