topic Re: Printing Russian Character in Operating System - HP-UX

Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:58:11 GMT

Hi,
Does anyone have a clue on how to print russian character.

FYI, I'm able to show russian character when I set the locale to ru_RU.utf8, though I can't manage to print it out.

Here is my locale setting:
LANG=ru_RU.utf8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Regards,
Eida

Re: Printing Russian Character

Dennis Handly — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:26:56 GMT

How are you printing it? Sending it to the display? To a printer?
You have correctly set the locale. What is the character and what is the hex bit pattern?

Re: Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:33:05 GMT

I'm sending it to a printer.
I'm trying to print "Hello world" (Ð¿Ñ Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑ Ð¼Ð¸Ñ ) in russian character.

Re: Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:36:17 GMT

Sorry, try to paste the russian character, though it is showing garbabe.

Re: Printing Russian Character

Dennis Handly — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:05:40 GMT

>I'm sending it to a printer.

Does it work when you send it to your display?

What type of printer? Local, remote or network?

>I'm trying to print "Hello world" (Ã Â¿Ã Â Ã Â¸Ã Â²Ã ÂµÃ Â Ã Â¼Ã Â¸Ã Â ) in Russian character. though it is showing garbage.

That's why I need the hex codes.

Re: Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:30:45 GMT

Hi Dennis,

It works when I try to send it to display. I'm using putty to access the server and have set the translation behaviour to UTF-8.

The printer that I'm using is a network printer.

Please let me know how can I get the hex code.

Re: Printing Russian Character

Dennis Handly — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:28:35 GMT

>The printer that I'm using is a network printer.

Does the printer have Russian fonts?

>Please let me know how can I get the hex code.

Redirect the output to a file. Then use:
xd -tx1 -tc file

Re: Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:00:33 GMT

Hi Dennis,

I think the printer has a russian font. I try to print from Microsoft Wordpad and have the character printed correctly.

Attahced is the hex representation

Re: Printing Russian Character

Dennis Handly — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:51:17 GMT

>Attached is the hex representation

Unfortunately I can neither display nor print them. :-(

Re: Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:57:13 GMT

I wonder why, when I try on Linux it can. I guess it uses a ghostscript or CUPS to print. Though when printing thru a terminal it does give out garbage.

I wonder why, I can't print from terminal

Re: Printing Russian Character

Dennis Handly — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:55:29 GMT

Here are some threads about printing Cyrillic fonts but probably not from HP-UX:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1105551
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1209954

Re: Printing Russian Character

Eida Hanafiah — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:04:11 GMT

Hi Dennis,
Thanks for the link. But I'm still looking a way to print this out.