^CIChange International Encoding

What ^CI does

^CI selects how byte values map to glyphs. ^CI28 selects UTF-8, which is the safest choice for modern data containing accents or non-Latin characters. Older labels often use ^CI0 (single-byte).

Syntax

^CIa

Parameters

Example

^XA
^CI28
^FO50,50^A0N,30,30^FDCafé Zürich^FS
^XZ

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Notes & tips

• Use ^CI28 for UTF-8 text.
• Place ^CI before the ^FD fields it affects.

Related commands

• ^FD — Field Data
• ^A — Font Selection

See the full ZPL command reference for all 92 documented commands.