<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The goal is to print invoices. There is a normal heading in English. Then some invoice lines. Those lines would look like this:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3 cases. Eggplant [chinese characters] $18.46</div><div dir="auto">2 cases. Oranges [chinese characters] $12.25</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Followed by a standard grand total and footer in English </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Laura Brody </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Bob Rasmussen <ras@anzio.com> </div><div>Date: 2/16/22 7:54 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: laura@hvcomputer.com </div><div>Cc: Frank Gemeinhardt <frank7767@gmail.com>, Filepro_List <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com>, Laura Brody <laura.k.brody@gmail.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: Odd FilePRO Question </div><div><br></div></div>It's true that Print Wizard (my product) can be used to print Chinese <br>and many other scripts (languages). Sticking to the printing aspect of <br>this for a minute, in Filepro, you could store the Chinese text in UTF-8 <br>mode. Alter a printcode file (some HP PCL .PRT file) to have a "start <br>Chinese font" printcode, and use it. After printing the Chinese, you would <br>have to use a new start-font code and also a horizontal positioning code <br>-- the Chinese text will take a width different from the number of bytes.<br><br>If you want to DISPLAY this text on the screen, that's another can of <br>worms. If it's stored as UTF-8, I believe filePro will display it either <br>as a string of garbage characters (the default), or properly in Chinese <br>(if your terminal emulator can run in UTF-8 mode, such as Anzio can), but <br>the width it occupies on the screen will be wrong.<br><br>If you want to INPUT Chinese directly into filePro, you'll need to use a <br>terminal emulator that can deal with UTF-8 encoding. Again, Anzio can do <br>this, including pasting from the clipboard.<br><br>In practical terms, I'd suggest you try printing but not displaying or <br>inputting.<br><br>Other notes:<br><br>1) Everything I said about Chinese would be true about most other <br>languages as well. But don't try Arabic or Farsi, which go right to left.<br><br>2) Printed Chinese can be "traditional" or "simplified". (Spoken Chinese <br>can be Cantonese or Mandarin).<br><br>3) The printcode to "start Chinese" doesn't actually have to choose a font <br>(typeface). Print Wizard can do automatic font selection.<br><br>4) Some HP (and other) PCL-5 printers can print Chinese using built-in <br>fonts. It might be possible to implement a system of printcodes that would <br>work with either Print Wizard or directly to the printer.<br><br>5) Print Wizard could also convert printed output to PDF.<br><br>6) I can not promise to support Print Wizard forever.<br><br>On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Laura Brody via Filepro-list wrote:<br><br>> I couldn't think of the name of the program, so I dug around. Printwizard<br>> was the program.<br>> <https://www.anzio.com/content/print-wizard><br>><br>> Many filePro developers have used this program for many years. Highly<br>> recommended<br>><br>> Laura Brody<br>><br>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:55 PM laura.k.brody <laura.k.brody@gmail.com><br>> wrote:<br>><br>>> To clarify, the Chinese characters appear on invoice lines, not just at<br>>> the heading area like a logo image?<br>>><br>>><br>>> You would have to have a filepro file with one field of english<br>>> description and a gif or other graphic file of the chinese image. You could<br>>> use a blob or just a filename path to the image file.<br>>><br>>> There are a couple of programs that would allow you to print the images in<br>>> the invoice.<br>>><br>>> Laura Brody<br>>><br>>><br>>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone<br>>><br>>><br>>> -------- Original message --------<br>>> From: Frank Gemeinhardt via Filepro-list <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com><br>>><br>>> Date: 2/16/22 4:45 PM (GMT-05:00)<br>>> To: filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>>> Subject: Odd FilePRO Question<br>>><br>>> *I have a prospective customer who insists on printing Chinese characters<br>>> on his invoices. The vocabulary is limited to names of produce items. I<br>>> am at a total loss. *<br>>><br>>> *Has anyone encountered such a request before?*<br>>> *Server is linux*<br>>><br>>> *Regards*<br>>> *Frank Gemeinhardt*<br>>> -------------- next part --------------<br>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>>> URL: <<br>>> http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20220216/450f74ac/attachment.html<br>>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Filepro-list mailing list<br>>> Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br>>><br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: <http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20220216/561b408f/attachment.html><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Filepro-list mailing list<br>> Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br>><br><br>Regards,<br>....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.<br><br>personal e-mail: ras@anzio.com<br> company e-mail: rsi@anzio.com<br> voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)<br> fax: (US) 503-624-0760<br> web: http://www.anzio.com<br> street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 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