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4.18.3 MULTI-LANGUAGE FONT FILE
The multi-language font file includes English (default), French, Hebrew, Latin, Nordic,
Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Slavic, Slovak, etc. To display in any of these
languages except English, you need to call SET_LANGUAGE to specify the language by
region.
4.18.4 SPECIAL FONT FILES
Fonts with file name specifying Tc12 (Traditional Chinese), Sc12 (Simplified Chinese),
Jp12 (Japanese), or Kr12 (Korean) are referred to as the special font files. This is
because their font size for alphanumeric characters must be determined by the command
SELECT_FONT, either 6x12 or 12x12. Otherwise, the characters cannot be displayed
properly.
GET_LANGUAGE
Purpose To retrieve the font/language setting.
Syntax A% = GET_LANGUAGE
Remarks “A%” is an integer variable to be assigned to the result.
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System font
Traditional Chinese font
Simplified Chinese font
Simplified Chinese font
Korean font
Japanese font
Hebrew font
Polish font
Russian font
Traditional Chinese font
Reserved
Simplified Chinese font
Japanese font
English
Canadian French
Hebrew
Multilingual Latin I
Nordic
Portuguese
Cyrillic (Russian)
Latin II (Slavic)
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Big-5, 16x16 dots
GB code, 12x16 dots
GB code, 16x16 dots
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Big-5, 12x12 dots
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GB code, 12x12 dots
12x12 dots
MS-DOS Code page 437
MS-DOS Code page 863
MS-DOS Code page 862
MS-DOS Code page 850
MS-DOS Code page 865
MS-DOS Code page 860
Windows Code page 1251
MS-DOS Code page 852