Chinese

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Frank7767 at aol.com wrote:

> 
> >From out of left field....A customer requested parallel Chinese characters  
> on his invoice.  Is this even possible?
>  
> System SCO Unix 5.6.0

...Probably 5.0.6 rather

> Filepro 4.8

Ah, where to start? Chinese characters require more than one byte per 
character (no matter which way you encode them), and some of them are 
double-wide (but not all of them), so your assumptions about one byte = 
one character = one cell on the screen all go away. So field length 
calculations are difficult.

However, I believe filePro is data-transparent, so you can store any 
characters. If you decide to store data in UTF-8, then ASCII characters 
will still occupy a byte each, but accented characters, Chinese, Russian, 
etc., will take up to 4 bytes per character.

Anzio as a terminal emulator (either Anzio Lite or AnzioWin) can handle 
the Chinese input and display. AnzioWin, with its Print Wizard component, 
can print the Chinese. Font selection is automatic (which is pretty 
slick). 

Give me a call to discuss this.

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

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