Hi,
We need to create a direct printer that will print chinese characters

We print to a print queue on our AIX server where LN runs using the following

lp -c -dLNV6IN -n %d -s %s

This works fine for english characters but we need to print chinese characters but the LN drivers in $BSE/lib/printfinf/ strip the chinese characters before it reaches the print queue.

Does anyone have any Unix print drivers that they have already customised that we could use please?

Thanks in advance.

Not sure if it is almost relevant for you, but in the baan printer driver there is a parameter nls_locale (or similar, currently not online) which controls which codepage for the output will be used. On english (or german in my case) it is set to 8859-1. Replacing the codepage with another one for chinese should help.

hth

Regards
Christof

Hi Christof,

Many thanks for your reply - this was indeed part of the answer that we reached late Friday.

Another part was that we were loading Chinese characters, via Exchange, from Excel - Excel sets the codepage for the text based on the person's codepage who is running the Excel / Exchange upload. What we needed to do was export the text from Access where you can specify the codepage for the text.

This, in conjunction with your tip resolved the problem :)

Thanks again.