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Internationalization Guide


Printing

The information in the previous sections on displaying multi-byte characters also applies to printing multi-byte characters. Printing multi-byte characters, however, also involves the following issues:

Printing From Windows

To print from a multi-byte Progress application running on Windows, whether the application’s interface is graphical or character, you can use any printer compatible with Windows and Windows device drivers.

For information on setting the font, see the Progress Client Deployment Guide .

Printing From Applications With a Character Interface

To print from a multi-byte Progress application with a character interface, make sure that the printer:

Testing Printers

To see if your printer is configured correctly, create a test file. On the first line of the test file, enter the digits 0–9, repeating them as necessary to fill the line. On the second line of the test file, enter double-byte characters exclusively. After making sure that your printer is not set to draft mode, condensed mode, or proportional font mode, print the test file, either from the Windows character interface or from Progress. On the printed version of the test file you should see two single-byte characters above each double-byte character. If you do not see this, the printer is not configured correctly.


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