I have an application where I should be able to print on a bluetooth printer, Zebra iMZ320, but I have some problems with UTF-8 specific characters (Æ, Ø or Å).
I am connecting to the device as follows:
BluetoothDevice device = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter().getRemoteDevice(macAddr);
Method m = device.getClass().getMethod("createRfcommSocket", new Class[] { Integer.TYPE });
bSocket = (BluetoothSocket)m.invoke(device, new Object[] { Integer.valueOf(1) });
bSocket.connect();
outStream = bSocket.getOutputStream();
inStream = bSocket.getInputStream();
After the socket is open, I am sending the data in CPCL:
String cpclData = "! U1 SETLP 5 2 24 \r\n"+text+"\r\n";
outStream.write(cpclData.getBytes());
outStream.flush();
But when I am trying to print the mentioned characters, it writes some abnormal characters instead.
I contacted Zebra, and one of their engineers wrote that I should try the following:
! 0 200 200 80 1
IN-MILLIMETERS
JOURNAL
CENTER
COUNTRY NORWAY
TEXT 4 0 0 8 COUNTRY IS NORWAY OR DENMARK
TEXT 4 0 0 15 Æ Ø Å
PRINT
But it does absolutely nothing.
it is simple if you try to print a label from android device; when you write the data use "ISO-8859-1" encoding, look:
String cpclData = "! U1 SETLP 5 2 24 \r\n"+text+"\r\n";
outStream.write(EncodingUtils.getBytes(cpclData, "ISO-8859-1"));
outStream.flush();