System overview   
1.22  EST3 Installation and Service Manual 
Foreign language support 
Printer use with foreign languages 
When supporting a single-byte character set language, your 
printer must be able to support the appropriate DOS code page. 
To support a double-byte character set language, your printer 
must be able to support the appropriate Windows code page. The 
required code pages are listed below. 
Remember that not all Windows characters are available on DOS 
printers, so some characters are not supported on these printers. 
 
Language Code page 
Chinese simplified  Windows Page Code 936 (GB) 
Chinese traditional   Windows Code Page 950 
(Big 5) 
Korean  Windows Code Page 949 
(Extended Wansung) 
Hebrew  DOS Code Page 862 
Turkish  DOS Code Page 857 
Dutch, French, Italian, 
Portuguese, Spanish, English 
DOS Code Page 850 
Polish, Slovak  DOS Code Page 852 
Russian  DOS Code Page 866 
 
Bilingual language support 
EST3 display modules (all LCD models and the KPDISP) 
feature bilingual operation. For two languages to be supported 
simultaneously, they must appear on the same code page. Refer 
to the table below to determine the system bilingual capabilities. 
Bilingual operation is not supported for Chinese and Korean. 
 
Windows code page  Languages supported 
1250 (Eastern Europe)  English, Polish Slovak 
1251 (Cyrillic)  English, Russian 
1252 (Western Europe)  Dutch, English, French, Italian, 
Portuguese, Spanish 
1254 (Turkish)  English, Turkish 
1255 (Hebrew)  English, Hebrew