Unicode characters on ZPL printer

Question

I have the task of re-designing a system to print shipping labels, using a networked Zebra GK420T. I have been able to send ZPL print jobs to it perfectly fine, but I cannot

Answer 1

I had the same problem, you should add an ^FH(Field Hexadecimal Indicator) before any ^FD(Field Data) command that contains special characters, in my case I need spanish chars so I had to use ^CI28(Change International Font/Encoding)

UTF 8 HEX codes list

sample: to print Alvaro Jesús Pérez Peñaranda we need to convert those special characters to UTF 8 Hex code and add an _ before each code, this is the result: Alvaro Jes_c3_bas P_c3_a9rez Pe_c3_b1aranda

^XA

^CI28
^FO60,75
^ASN,36,20^FH^FDAlvaro Jes_c3_bas P_c3_a9rez Pe_c3_b1aranda^FS

^XZ