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copied!<p>If you're taking of the DOS editor, you're dealing with a legacy encoding.</p> <p>Have a look at this link: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488003.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc488003.aspx</a></p> <p>At some time you're converting characters to bytes to send them to the printer. You probably do that using an <code>StreamWriter</code> or so. Now you have to supply this "converter" the correct encoding, which in the end does convert the characters to the correct byte representation for the printer, so that the extended characters match.</p> <p>A list of encodings (for DOS codepages) can be found here: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx</a> - a common one is ibm850 (western european).</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> I found the following information online, maybe it helps (I actually think that code page 0 "Normal" is <code>#850 Latin-1</code>):</p> <pre><code>Star Micronics Character Code Tables Reference Code Page | Description 0 | Normal 1 | #437 USA, Std Europe 2 | Katakana 3 | #437 USA, Std Europe 4 | #858 Multilingual 5 | #852 Latin-2 6 | #860 Portuguese 7 | #861 Icelandic 8 | #863 Canadian French 9 | #865 Nordic 10 | #866 Cyrillic Russian 11 | #855 Cyrillic Bulgarian 12 | #857 Turkey 13 | #852 Israel 14 | #864 Arabic 15 | #737 Greek 16 | #851 Greek 17 | #869 Greek 18 | #929 Greek 19 | #772 Lithuanian 20 | #774 Lithuanian 21 | #874 Thai </code></pre>

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