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PCL Symbol Sets

PCL Symbol Sets – The symbol set of a font describes the relative positions of individual characters within the font. Since there can only be 256 characters in most fonts, and there are well over 256 different characters used in professional document preparation, there needs to be some way to map characters into positions within the font.

The symbol set serves this purpose. It identifies the “map” used to position characters within the font.

Use Table below to find addition information on each of the different PCL Symbol Sets.

PCL Symbol Set NameSYM-IDKIND1AliasTest File
3 of 9 Barcode0Y25n/a
8859/5-1986 Cyrillic ASCII0R18n/a
ABICOMP Brazil/Portugal13P432P1
ABICOMP International14P464P2
Alternate11P368n/a
Alternate Caps23J746n/a
Arabic (McKay’s Version)0V22n/a
Astrology 124L780n/a
Bit Paired APL1P48n/a
C39 Barcode (UC+LCase)109Y3513n/a
C39 Barcode (UC+text)209Y6713n/a
C39 Barcode (Upper Case)9Y313n/a
Carta20L652n/a
Chess23L748n/a
CODABAR Barcode5Y185n/a
Code 11 Barcode7Y249n/a
CP-857 Turkish-88T276TK
CP-864 Arabic-88V278AR
CP-864 Latin/Arabic10V342PR
CP-869 Greek-88G263G8
CP-874 TISI 620-2433 Thai1T116n/a
Cyrillic (CP 855)1R50n/a
Desktop7J234DTTTDT_7J
Devanagari2D68n/a
Document8J266n/a
Expert10P336n/a
Fractions19J618n/a
Fraktur12P400n/a
Hebrew-70H8HO
Hebrew-88H264H8
HP Block Characters1L44n/a
HP European Spanish7S243n/a
HP Large Characters0C3n/a
HP Latin Spanish8S275n/a
HP-GL Download16S531n/a
HP-GL Drafting17S563n/a
HP-GL Special Symbols18S595n/a
HPL5U181n/a
Industrial 2 of 5 Barcode1Y57n/a
Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcode4Y153n/a
ISO 10: Swedish3S1153S
ISO 11: Latin/Thai0S19SWTTSW_0S
ISO 13: Baltic languages plus Polish1K43n/a
ISO 14: JIS ASCII0K110K
ISO 15: Italian0I9ITTTIT_0I
ISO 16: Portuguese4S1474S
ISO 17: Spanish2S83SPTTSP_2S
ISO 2: International Reference2U852U
ISO 21: German1G39GRTTGR_1G
ISO 25: French0F60F
ISO 4: United Kingdom1E37UKTTUK_1E
ISO 57: Chinese2K752K
ISO 6: US ASCII0U21USTTUS_0U
ISO 60: Danish/Norwiegan0D4DNTTDN_0D
ISO 61: Norwegian Version 21D361D
ISO 69: French1F38FRTTFR_1F
ISO 84: Portuguese5S1795S
ISO 85: Spanish6S2116S
ISO 8859/1 Latin I (ECMA-94)0N14E1TTE1_0N
ISO 8859/15 Latin 9 (W. Eur.)9N302E9TTE9_9N
ISO 8859/2 Latin 2 (E. Eur.)2N78E2TTE2_2N
ISO 8859/3 Latin 3 (S. Eur.)3N110n/a
ISO 8859/4 Latin 4 Baltic4N142n/a
ISO 8859/5 Latin/Cyrillic10N334ERTTER_10N
ISO 8859/5-1986 Cyrillic0R82n/a
ISO 8859/6 Latin/Arabic11N366n/a
ISO 8859/7 Latin/Greek12N398EGTTEG_12N
ISO 8859/8 Latin/Hebrew7H232EH
ISO 8859/9 Latin 55N174E5TTE5_5N
ISO 8859/9 Latin 5 Turkishn/a
ISO: German0G70G
ISO: Spanish1S511S
ISO-8859/10 Latin 6 Nordic6N206E6
ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 10011L364n/a
ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 20012L396n/a
ITC Zapf Dingbats Series 30013L428n/a
KANA-8 (JIS 210)8K267n/a
Korean-89K299n/a
Legal1U53LGTTLG_1U
Line Draw-70L12n/a
Line Draw-7 (same as 0L)0B2n/a
Line Draw-88L268n/a
Lining Figures21J682n/a
Math-70M13n/a
Math-7 (same as 0M)0A1n/a
Math-88M269M8TTM8_8M
Matrix 2 of 5 Barcode2Y89n/a
MC Text (Macintosh)12J394MCTTMC_12J
MICR (CMC-7)14Y473n/a
MICR (E13B)10O335n/a
Microsoft Publishing6J202PBTTPB_6J
MSI/Plessey Barcode6Y217n/a
OCR-A0O15n/a
OCR-B1O47n/a
OCR-M2O79n/a
OEM-17U245n/a
OEM-SPECIALSxQ17+32xn/a
Old Style Figures18J586n/a
Ornaments21L684n/a
PC-1004 OS/29J298PU
PC-720 Arabicn/a
PC-737n/a
PC-775 Baltic (PC-8 Latin 6)26U853PVTTPV_26U
PC-8 Bulgarian13R434BG
PC-8 D/N, Code Page 437N11U373PDTTPD_11U
PC-8 Greek Alternate (437G)14G455GE
PC-8 Latin/Greek12G391GK
PC-8 PC Nova27Q881PY
PC-8 Polish Mazovia24Q785PL
PC-8, Code Page 43710U341PCTTPC_10U
PC-850 Multilingual Latin I12U405PMTTPM_10U
PC-851 Latin/Greek10G327PGTTPG_10G
PC-852, Latin 2 (Polish)17U565PETTPE_17U
PC-853 Latin 3 Turkish18U597P3
PC-855 Cyrillic10R328PKTTPK_10R
PC-857 Latin 5 Turkish16U533P5TTP5_16U
PC-858 Multilingual Euro13U437P9TTP9_13U
PC-860 Portugal20U661PP
PC-861 Iceland21U693IC
PC-862 Latin/Hebrew15H488PHTTPH_15H
PC-863 Canadian French23U757CN
PC-865 Nordic25U821NW
PC-866 Cyrillic/Russian3R114CPTTCP_3R
PC-869 Greek11G359IG
PC-8T, Code Page 437T9T308PTTTPT_9T
PC-911 Katakana3K107PJ
PCL ITC Zapf Dingbats14L460L$TTL$_579L
Pi Set #131L1004n/a
Pi Set #232L1036n/a
Pi Set #333L1068n/a
Pi Set #434L1100n/a
Pi Set #535L1132n/a
Pi Set #636L1164n/a
Pi Symbols15U501PITTPI_15U
POSTNET Barcode15Y505n/a
PS ISO Latin 111J363n/a
PS ITC Zapf Dingbats10L332DS
PS Math Symbol5M173MS
PS Text10J330TS
Roman Extension0E5RE
Roman-88U277R8TTR8_8U
Roman-94U149R9
Russian-GOST12R402RG
Small Caps & Lining Figures22J714n/a
Small Caps & Old Style17J554n/a
Sonata20S659n/a
Swash Characters16J522n/a
Symbol (Math)19M621ASTTAS_19M
Symbol (Math)19M621SYTTSY_19M
Tax Line Draw2L76n/a
Tech-71M45n/a
Teletex10T340n/a
TeX Math Extension11M365n/a
TeX Math Italic13M429n/a
TeX Math Symbol12M397n/a
Thai-80T20n/a
TISI 620-2533 (Thai)1T52n/a
TISI 620-2533 Thai0T84n/a
Typewriter Paired APL0P16n/a
Ukrainian14R466CU
Universal Greek & Math Pi10M333n/a
Universal New & Comm. Pi22L716n/a
UPC/EAN Barcode8Y281n/a
UTF-8 (Unicode)18N590n/a
Ventura International13J437VI
Ventura ITC Zapf Dingbats9L300DV
Ventura Math6M426VM
Ventura US14J205VU
Windows 1258 (Vietnam)n/a
Windows 3.0 Latin I9U309WNTTWN_9U
Windows 3.0 Latin I9U309WOTTWO_9U
Windows 3.1 Latin 29E273WETTWE_9E
Windows 3.1 Latin 29E293n/a
Windows 3.1 Latin 55T180WTTTWT_5T
Windows 3.1 Latin I19U629W1TTW1_19U
Windows 874 (Thai)n/a
Windows 98 Cyrillic9R306WRTTWR_9R
Windows 98 Latin 6 Baltic19L620WL
Windows 98 Latin/Greek9G295WG
Windows CP 932 (Japan)n/a
Windows Latin/Arabic9V310WA
Windows LineDraw8I329n/a
Wingdings579L18540WDTTWD_589L
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