special symbol

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Richard D. Williams wrote:

> Well, I have tried several combinations to produce this symbol, here is the
> latest;
> $1b ( 0 N #167
>
> I really need to print this symbol.  My printer will print the symbol if I use
> it in a word document or e-mail.
> I am remote to the Linux server, so I cannot test directly on a system
> printer.  But, that should be an issue as most of our printing is remote.
>
> I am not well versed on creating print codes, so perhaps someon e could point
> out what I am missing in the above attempt.

I haven't been paying close attention, so pardon me if I'm not totally
tuned in.

First, whenever you deal with a character higher than decimal 127, it's
not enough to know what numeric value it has. You have to know numeric
value IN A PARTICULAR CHARACTER SET. The section sign has a Unicode value
of A7 (hex), which is also its value in the ISO Latin 1 set, and also its
value in Windows codepage 1252. However, that would NOT be its value in
the DOS character set (aka. codepage 437). In fact, I don't see it there.

Try poking around in the Windows program "charset" (Start:Run:Charset).

When you want to print something, there are two general ways to do it:

1) Set the printer into a particular character set, and then send the
right character value. How you do this depends on the printer you have,
and what character sets is includes.

2) Send a bitmap or other downloadable definition of the character, and
print that. This is what the Windows printer driver does when you want to
print characters (or fonts) that are not built in to the printer. However,
this is not a trivial matter when printing from filePro (or Unix/Linux in
general).

So what to do? You have stated that you are running fP remotely. I assume
that means through a terminal emulator. Your terminal emulator may give
you some assistance with this. Check with the vendor.

If you use AnzioWin, with its built-in Print Wizard logic, you can print
any character. We include a printcode table that defines many special
characters, specified in Unicode values. The Print Wizard logic
automatically selects the fonts to be used. You can even print Russian,
Chinese, etc. More on Anzio is available at our website.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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