character set solaris - High Level Programming

ppass · #1 12-20-2005

hi ,

i am trying to work on a script that transforms some special Dutch characters and send them to a Xerox printer ..
the problem is that while doing so iam unable to identify th correct character set that is used by solaris , to transfer these characcters to Xerox character set .

thanks for ur help

jim mcnamara · #2 12-20-2005

I'm not sure about too much except that

Code:

locale

will show your current settings for locale like this

Code:

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

This is the unix default setting for a lot of systems.

Code:

locale -a

will show you all of the avaiable settings. After you figure out what settings you have, try changing to the locale setting you need, then print.

Otherwise, check out:

Code:

man charmap

and localedef as well.

linuxpenguin · #3 12-20-2005

hmm, I had a problem on HP sending printer character set to the printer. I had to refer to the printer manual and luckily it contained the character set. So you may want to have a look at the printer manual

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