Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a printer controller in a printing system to provide simple, flexible translation of received code points into any of multiple encodings. A code page data structure as generally practiced in the art is enhanced to provide translation from a first encoding of a received code point into any of multiple resultant encodings. In one aspect the enhanced code page data structure may include a mapping of a received code point into any number of Unicode scalar values. In another aspect, where no Unicode code point is available, the enhanced code page may provide a second mapping through existing code page and character name data structures to identify a corresponding glyph to be imaged on the printable medium.