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>I'd like to buy a laser printer, I've got by with a dot-matrix up to
>now.   I've got some specs about a likely box, but no mention of KOI8-R,
>although it does list various cyrillic charsets.   Maybe one of the ones
>listed is KOI8-R under another name (but no sign of PC-878 which is I
>understand IBM's designation for it).   The spec does list 'Windows
>Cyrillic' which I would guess to be CP-1251 - maybe I'll just have to
>translate?

Hi Geoff,

there are different kinds of cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
etc.). Russian IBM codepage used to be PC-866.

Your laser printer will possibly have internal fonts. Check for
PC-866 or Windows CP-1251 (=ISO-8859-5) I could provide you
downloadable fonts Times and Helevetica for HP Laserjet 4 or 5 that
you send to the printer only once and that can be switched on by an
escape code sequence that means in the same way as an internal font
is selected.

Your mime.cfg contains a line:

file/printprn.dgi    |[100]type _4prt.txt>PRN

You need to modify it a bit (everything on one line)

file/printprn.dgi    |@copy /b printer.ini PRN>nul\n
type _4prt.txt>PRN

The file printer.ini must contain the escape sequence that
selects the appropriate Russian font. If the internal or downloaded
font supports a different charset you will have to insert some
translation program as a filter into the mime.cfg line, eg.:

file/printprn.dgi    |@copy /b printer.ini PRN>nul\n
@transl.exe _4prt.txt >PRN

Regards
Christof Lange

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