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| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
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| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
1403.0. "European diacritic signs" by YIPPEE::GOULNIK (OogaboogaBox type) Fri May 06 1988 10:12
has anyone experienced problems with the LA50 when trying to print
special characters such as {�,�,�,�}. MicroEmacs stores them as
extended 8-bit Ascii {224,231,232,233}, which somehow get converted
to 7-bit and print as {a,c,e,e}. The only way I could get them
printed correctly was by converting them to 7-bit {64,92,125,123}.
So before I start writing a program to do it, even though there isnt
much to do, has anyone got suggestions?
Iv
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| 1403.1 | | ANGORA::SMCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Fri May 06 1988 10:17 | 6 |
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I believe there is a dip switch to set the printer into eight bit
mode. Has this been set? I think you can also enable it with a
seven bit sequence.
- steve
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| 1403.2 | sure thing | YIPPEE::GOULNIK | OogaboogaBox type | Fri May 06 1988 10:22 | 8 |
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I have tried about all switch combinations, as well as most
G0,G1 character set escape sequences. I doesnt seem to make
any difference (and I switched the printer off/on each time
I changed the switch config). I havent changed the printer
settings in Preferences hough but I seem to remember it's
in 8 bit. I'll check that.
Iv
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| 1403.3 | The drive did it... | ELWOOD::PETERS | | Fri May 06 1988 16:42 | 10 |
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The print driver is the problem. AmigaDOS maps the foreign language
characters to special values. The print driver should then map them
back to the correct values for the printer. The LA50 driver
( that I wrote ) doesn't do the right thing. I will look into how
hard this is to fix.
Steve Peters
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