Re: [Freedos-devel] Codepages and printers

2007-10-08 Thread Ladislav Lacina
I am very interrestes in it too. I looked into some docs about Hewlett packard printers and about their PCL language but I don't understant it very much. I think that such multilanguage printing is would be extremely useful for my text editor Blocek. - Original Message - From: Henrique

Re: [Freedos-devel] Codepages and printers

2007-10-08 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi Ladislav, I don't know if you remember me but I helped Mateusz Viste with his Foxtype program, particularly on the creation of the characters. (There's been a long time a I don't speak with him; I guess his character database is much more comprehensive by now.) Multilanguage printing, in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Codepages and printers

2007-10-08 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hello Henrique, 2007/10/8, Henrique Peron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Bruce, today, on FreeDOS, we rely on codepages already encoded into printer's firmware. The equivalent to the BIOS codepages for DISPLAY (the 437 in DISPLAY CON=(EGA,437,1) For instance, if I happen to be russian and type a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Codepages and printers

2007-10-08 Thread lyricalnanoha
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Aitor SantamarĂ­a wrote: Unfortunately, all the codepages (CPI/CPX files) that you have created have an indicator inside them that they are for DISPLAY only (and not for PRINTER). And that is because the way in which you insert a codepage into a printer is different from