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Can I print characters in my DOS Code Page ?
Printfil
can print any character which is mapped into the choosen
Windows font, including latin characters (A,B,C,
...) accented letters (à, è,
é, ..., used in specific languages), box-drawing
chacters (╔, ═, ..., used to "draw" frames and boxes in
character mode), symbols (Æ,
Ø, €, ...)
and even special glyphs included in specialized
fonts (barcodes for example).
There
is no need to "Select a
Code Page" in Printfil because the Windows fonts already
provides all what's needed to print any character produced by your
source application. You can easily see this by choosing, for example,
"Symbol" instead of "Courier New" in the Printfil's configuration
dialog.
In
addition, Printfil can automatically call the Windows OEM (DOS) to Ansi (Windows) conversion of the characters, so
that an unsupported DOS OEM character in the currently selected font
can be automatically rendered by using the most similar one in the
currently selected Windows Ansi codepage.
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Tip: If your own legacy program is using a different codepage than the Windows internal OEM code page, then the Windows OEM-to-Ansi charset conversion may not work properly for some accented letters and/or other national characters.
In this case, Printfil 5.7 and newer provides a button at Configuration -> Standard to change the internal Windows OEM Code Page, making it matching your own source program.
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So, for
printing non-latin characters with Printfil you only need a standard
True Type Windows font which includes them, in the Ansi or OEM codepage.
. The following table contains some
sample fonts which can be selected for specific languages and/or
purposes. These are only some examples however.
| Arabic |
aSwIt Mono 864
(included in Printfil 5.3 and newer) |
OEM |
Windows
True Type PC8 font by aSwIt s.r.l. containing the glyps in the DOS OEM Code Page 864 (Arabic) |
| Central
European |
Courier
New CE |
Ansi
/ OEM |
Windows
True Type font by Microsoft. Suitable for Central European
languages (Code Page 852): Czech, Slovenian, ... |
| Greek |
Courier
New Greek |
Ansi
/ OEM |
Windows
True Type font by Microsoft. Suitable for the Greek
language |
| Hebrew |
Heblatin |
Ansi
/ OEM |
Windows
True Type font by Jet Print Solutions Ltd containing the
Hebrew glyphs for the DOS
OEM Code Page 862 and ISO 8859-8. |
| Russian |
aSwIt
Mono 866
(included in Printfil 5.3 and newer) |
OEM |
Windows
True Type PC8 font by aSwIt s.r.l. containing the glyps in the DOS OEM
Code Page 866 (Russian). |
| Turkish |
Courier
New TUR |
Ansi
/ OEM |
Windows
True Type font by Microsoft. Suitable for the Turkish
language |
| Western
Languages |
aSwIt Mono 437
(included in Printfil 5.3 and newer) |
OEM |
Windows
True Type PC8 font by aSwIt s.r.l. containing the glyps in the DOS OEM
Code Page 437 (IBM US), including box
drawing characters. For
Western languages. |
and contains
only some examples. You might use other Windows fonts
for the same languages, and different fonts for other languages and/or
purposes.
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