USB Printer Encoding Problem with Chinese Characters

thank you for seeing my problem. There is something wrong with my encoding, it occurs that Chinese characters are wrongly printed when I write like this : printer.text("你好") but I get wrong characters printed like “挂批” I tried to set the encoding as #-- coding: gbk – ,but got encoding problem. And I tried to use the magic encode like from escpos.magicencode import Encoder, but got no module named escpos.magicencode as ImportError. So I wander how to set the encoding to make my printer print correct Chinese characters. Sorry for my English and naive questions. I have been working on this for one week and still could’t figure it out. Thanks again.

[mike42]

Would you mind sharing which make/model of printer you have? This is important, because ESC/POS does not support Chinese text, but some printers have their own commands which you might be able to use.

[slyang-git]

Can I set multiple codepages? Especially for cases where there might be a mixture of traditional and simplified chinese.

maybe you can change codepage by if…else logics on the runtime.