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From: d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 Printer drivers and foreign characters
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.093736.6172@lth.se>
Date: 13 Oct 90 09:37:36 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.120632.1224@ulrik.uio.no>
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In article <1990Oct9.120632.1224@ulrik.uio.no>, rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no
(Rodrigo Lopez) writes:
> The printer drivers supplied with win3 are, for the most, great and do a
> good job at giving the
> user the best possible output the hardware can produce. But, with
> foreign charaters there is 
> one problem. Either they become garbled up in the printer (or within the
> driver for all I know) or
> they are just replaced by a "."
> 
> At work we use Star printers (LC10 and LC24-10). They function well with
> all software packages
> (including windows) but refuse to print the norwegian "o+/" (o with a
> slash) and replaces it with
> the infamous "." 
> 
> To make a long story short, can anybody help me ? 
> I've tried epson and other drivers without success.
> 
Yea, I've had similar problems (though with Swedish characters).
	There is one solution, and that is to use the TTY.DRV printer driver.
It's not a nice way, and I don't recommend it if you don't like
hexcodes and leafing through printer manuals.
	The thing is that in Windows 3 you can reprogram the TTY driver so
that it translates ANSI (the Windows character set) characters to control
code/character combinatation to send to the printer.
	Applying some techical skill, it is in principle 
possible to program it to function with all printers that 
are not using a page description language.

(Mr) Ola Sigurdson      Internet: d89os@efd.lth.se