Q:
Topic thread:
Printer Systems (PRINT - NA/ATS)
AFP FONTS
FONTS
I'm getting problems to print the Spanish special characters. I'm using
codepage T1V10284 (Spanish Latin America) but I just don't get the right
characters printed. The server is an AIX machine running PSF for AIX
V2.1. The page definition refers to a coded font (X0ST12) that points to
the previously mentioned codepage.
For testing purposes I created, in the client (an HP/9000), a file with
all the Spanish characters, I can see them on the screen but the printed
page shows different ones.
The customer is using the lprafp command, it was renamed to lpr and it's
something like this:
lpr -A -odatat=line -oinpexit=/usr/lpp/psf/bin/asciinpe -occ=yes
-occtype=z -oformdef=F1XXXX -opagedef=P1XXXX -shostname -pprinter
filename
I'm not sure if I should have opened this item under PSF/AIX queue but I
need an explanation on how PSF for AIX handle fonts when printing flat
ASCII.
Please let me know if you need additional information to diagnose the
problem. What I tried was modifying the codepage and it worked for only
some of the characters not for all and I don't think it's the most
proper way to fix it.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards.
A:
Please review libraried items RTA000049603 and RTA000102511 for a
discussion of the underlying processes. Basically what's happening
is that you're using inpexit=asciinpe to convert the ASCII data to
EBCDIC. Both asciinpe and apka2e are hardcoded to convert from an
ASCII codepage of 850 to an EBCDIC codepage of 037 using the AIX
iconv converter and tables. As RTA000049603 explains, you need to
know what codepage the data was originally created in. The standard
asciinpe and apka2e exits will most likely (as you've found) not work
for data that has been created with an AIX Spanish code page and that
is to printed with a font that uses an EBCDIC-encoded Spanish code
page. Thus you will at a minimum need to create a new input record
exit that will convert from the appropriate Spanish ASCII code page
to the Spanish EBCDIC code page. If the existing iconv converter
pairs (that are described in the other items) do not correctly map
the characters you need, then you may need an additional step of
generating your own customized iconv converter pair (using the genxlt
command).
Take a look at the items I referenced, then please reopen this item
with any additional questions. I'll be glad to work with you to ensure
you get the proper conversions.
Closing for now, but please reopen as needed.
(Reviewed Feb 1999)
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
psf/6000 psf/aix infoprint ipmgr asciinpe apka2e pagedef iconv
ascii ebcdic conversion translation language foreign T1V10284 Spanish
codepage code page genxlt converter
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000154504 ITEM: RTA000154504
Dated: 02/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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