[Gambas-user] How to print Greek

[Fabien Bodard]

try that !

hPrinter = OPEN "/dev/lp0" FOR OUTPUT
         hPrinter.EndOfLine = gb.Windows
         PRINT #hPrinter, "Afixi" &  prosorinoAA & " " &
conv(tEpitheto.Text, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-7")


http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/conv?en

2010/2/13 Doriano Blengino <doriano.blengino at ...1909...>:
> Vassilis K ha scritto:
>> Dear Doriano,
>>
>> I remember from the last time that you where a kind of old printers
>> expert !
>>
>> I printed all the characters from 33 to 255 and have found all the greek
>> letters somewhere between 128-180 and 224-234.
>>
>> The greek letters are in order from 128 "Α" to 151 "Ω" . The capitals
>> are 100% in order. The small letters are in order (from 152 "α" up to
>> "σ" then they go to "ς" and then "τ", "υ", "φ", "χ", "ψ" and "ω" is 50
>> chars further ! as well as the letters with tonos "ά", "έ", etc.
>>
>> Shall I make my-shelf a routine for greek printing out of these?
>>
>>
> You are lucky! I am happy for you.
>
> As I said, may be that there is an already-made way to do the conversion
> - this implies that the characters in the printer are arranged in a
> standard way, and named something like CP-850, CP-851 or alike. You
> should check the manual, if you have it. By that way, if that CP-xxxx
> maps well to some ISO-8859-yyy, then there is some way to do the
> conversion; but I don't know how to do it from gambas - perhaps it has a
> function to make arbitrarily charset conversions, but this has also to
> do with the locales installed in your computer. I suppose your current
> locale, if not UTF-8, is ok, but it may differ from the charset of the
> printer.
>
> Making an own routine to make the conversion is straightforward, even if
> a little boring... I would make a quick check for conversion, and then
> write an easy conversion routine.



>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Doriano Blengino
>
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