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From: Alexander Russell
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:41

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"Bovine Unit #243" <bov243@karry.shadowdale.net> wrote in message
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> > When the file is written to the LPT port, I can see the instruction to
the
> > printer. The EURO symbol has got an ASCII value of 128.When I debug the
flat
> > file , I can see '80' (128 in HEXA) for the EURO symbol.But , the
prointer
> > prints some freak character.
>
> My guess is if your printer prints directly from the file (i.e. it's not
> PostScript printer or something), then the printer is printing from a
> character look-up table in its ROM. Is the "freak character" French (?)
> character "C" with funny tail? If that is so, then it must be updated to
> have Euro symbol in its ROM. If your HP printer is several years old and
> doesn't contain Euro symbol, then you'll have to somehow generate a
> graphic character and send it to the printer as graphic or update the
> character set in ROM.
>
The printer may support many character sets, but the text file may not
conatin the code to switch to the character set with the characters you
want. See the printers reference manual, and update the program that makes
the text file to add the code sequence required to set the character set.

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