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Attribute

lang

Attribute value	Description
"en"	English (ANK specification)
"de"	German (ANK specification)
"fr"	French (ANK specification)
"it"	Italian (ANK specification)
"es"	Spanish (ANK specification)
"ja"	Japanese (International character set is also changed to Japanese.)
"ja-jp"
"ja-ex"	Japanese JISX0213 (International character set is also changed to Japanese.)
"ko"	Korean (International character set is also changed to Korean.)
"ko-kr"
"zh-hans"	Simplified Chinese (International character set is also changed to Chinese.)
"zh-cn"
"zh-hant"	Traditional Chinese
"zh-tw"
"mul"	Multiple languages (UTF-8)
Language code other than above	English (ANK specification)

Depending on the specified language, some characters are printed as follows:

Language	Characters $(U+0024)	Characters \(U+005C)
Japanese	$	¥
Korean	$	￦
Simplified Chinese		\
Traditional Chinese	$	\

Sample program

When printing a text string with the following settings

<epos-print xmlns="http://www.epson-pos.com/schemas/2011/03/epos-print">
	<text lang="ja" />
	<text smooth="true" />
	<text align="center" />
	<text font="font_a" />
	<text dw="true" dh="true" />
	<text ul="true" />
	<text>Hello, World!&#10;</text>
</epos-print>

Example of language setting

• Korean

• 	<epos-print xmlns="http://www.epson-pos.com/schemas/2011/03/epos-print"> <text lang="ko" /> </epos-print>

• Simplified Chinese

• 	<epos-print xmlns="http://www.epson-pos.com/schemas/2011/03/epos-print"> <text lang="zh-hans" /> </epos-print>

• Traditional Chinese

• 	<epos-print xmlns="http://www.epson-pos.com/schemas/2011/03/epos-print"> <text lang="zh-hant" /> </epos-print>

Supplementary explanation

• To print data other than text after printing text, start a new line or feed paper.
• In the page mode, text is printed from the current print position with the base line dot of the characters as the standard. For information on the base line dot, refer to Printer-specific Support Information.
• For the character codes available for printing, refer to the Technical Reference Guide of the printer.
• Shift JIS code characters can be printed when Japanese is specified as "font".
• If "dw" and "width" are set in a single element, the "width" setting is applied.
• If "dh" and "length" are set in a single element, the "height" setting is applied.
• Use "y" in the page mode.
• The "align" and "rotate" cannot be applied in the page mode.
• To rotate text string in the page mode, use <direction>.
• When setting "align" or "rotate", set it at the beginning of a line.
• When setting "color" for TM-U220 and TM-U220II printers, set it at the beginning of a line.
• The "align" setting specified in this element is also applied to <image>, <logo>, <barcode>, and <symbol>.
• The "rotate" setting specified in this element is also applied to <barcode> and <symbol>.
• When specifying the lang attribute, specify it at the beginning of the print request.