utf 8 - Print characters with an acute in ZPL

Question

If I send the ZPL commands below to a Zebra printer, it prints Amitiù:

^XA
^FO50,20
^CI7
^A0N,25,15
^FD
Amitié
^FS
^XZ

• Note that the file encoding is ANSI.
• Note the use of the ZPL command ^CI7 (7 => Single Byte Encoding - France 1 Character Set).

On the other hand, if I send the ZPL commands below to a Zebra printer, it prints Amitié (which is what I actually need to get):

^XA
^FO50,20
^CI28
^A0N,25,15
^FD
Amitié
^FS
^XZ

• Note that the file encoding is UTF-8.
• Note the use of the ZPL command ^CI28 (28 => Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) - Unicode Character Set).

Do you know what's wrong in the first case?

Thank you for helping.

Answer 1

Use UTF-8 by placing a ^CI28 command at the top of your ZPL template, eg

^XA
^CI28
^CF0,80
^FO70,40^FDavión^FS
^XZ