news@brian386.UUCP (Wm. Brian McCane) (04/04/89)
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes
anyway. I am in need of a program (C Source Preferred) which will allow
an application to output to an epson or other DOT Matrix printer, in
Mandarin(?) chinese. If anyone can send me such a beast, or give me a
clue about where to look, I would greatly appreciate it. (I hate to
re-invent the wheel, and this project is starting to irk me ;-{) Thanks
in advance for any help you can give me.
brian
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Wm. Brian McCane | Life is full of doors that won't open
| when you knock, equally spaced amid
Disclaimer: I don't think they even | those that open when you don't want
admit I work here. | them to. - Roger Zelazny "Blood of Amber"
albert@cmtl01.UUCP (Albert Luk) (04/07/89)
In article <426@brian386.UUCP>, news@brian386.UUCP (Wm. Brian McCane) writes: > I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes > anyway. I am in need of a program (C Source Preferred) which will allow > an application to output to an epson or other DOT Matrix printer, in > Mandarin(?) chinese. If anyone can send me such a beast, or give me a > clue about where to look, I would greatly appreciate it. (I hate to > re-invent the wheel, and this project is starting to irk me ;-{) Thanks > in advance for any help you can give me. > > brian > > -- > Wm. Brian McCane | Life is full of doors that won't open > | when you knock, equally spaced amid > Disclaimer: I don't think they even | those that open when you don't want > admit I work here. | them to. - Roger Zelazny "Blood of Amber" I had a chance to work in China in 1986-1987 transferring our English system for Chinese use. Besides many uncountable obstacles Chinese printing could be viewed not a such difficult one now. At that time we had developed two printing methods. Method 1 : Chinese character font dictionary is stored in the host cpu. The host searches for the right char font and sends the bit pattern to the printer - cheap but slows down the host. Method 2 : Epson 24 pin printer was modified to include a prom card of Chinese fonts - cost a bit more but frees up the host cpu, the smart Epson offloads the host burden. I had published my work in the proceedings of 1988 International Conference on Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages pp. 641-645 A Chinese Computer System for Railway Yard Operation. I had included many examples in the paper. ========================================================================= Albert Luk 4 Ramses, Kirkland O-O Montreal, Quebec, U Canada H9J 9Z7 < > (work) (514) 399 4220 The above is all my own idea and has nothing ..!attcan!CN.YIS!albert to do with my company or whoever.