🧾 Description
This article explains how to dissplay special characters (German Umlauts) on Hand Held Scanners
Please note that following programming does apply on specific Handheld scanners.
Their architecture only allows them to encode the characters in ASCII.
IF customer has an Heron, Quickscan Lite, QuickScan Qx2500, Gryphon Gx4500, Rida (only with its base), PowerScan PWSx9600:
On above devices UTF 8 is supported, we just need to activate appropriate setting :
IF customer has a Touch, Powerscan 9100, 9300, 950x, Quickscan 21/24xx:
We may achieve same result by using a common feature (Character Conversion), to convert the actual keys (ASCII encoding) to umlauts as follows :
5B ([) -> C4 (Ä)
5C (\) -> D6 (Ö)
5D (]) -> DC (Ü)
🛠️ Resolution Steps
Please do not forget to set up USB-Keyboard interface and German country mode PRIOR to read Character Conversion codes:
USB-KEYBOARD
1D readers
2D readers
Keyboard Country Mode = German
1D readers
2D readers
Character Conversion: