Re: Russian Text

[Alan C <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Justin,

There are others here with more experience on using the CCSID values for 
manipulating character sets, but from the question about a "lookup table 
to convert English words to Cyrrillic" characters, it sounds like a 
possible translation issue.

If the spool text is in English, then you have to separate the issues 
into two or three more: (1) translation of the text to Russian, and (2) 
the other, setting up the technical issues relating to the character 
sets, and (3) a printer that can print it.

For number (1), being as much at home in Spanish as I am in English, you 
do not want to use any such word-conversion table, and you do *not* want 
to use an automatic translation program, almost never. Although you can 
get by with a phrase-book for ordering food (sometimes), there's too 
many missed meanings in real life. I don't know if they'll ever have 
such a reasonable program. They can be useful in very limited 
circumstances.

- Alan


> I have been given a requirement to print spool text in a 
> Russian(Cyrillic) font.  Is there a way to do this is RPG?  Do I need 
> a lookup table to convert English words to Russian(Cyrillic).  We are 
> printing to an HP Laserjet 8000 series printer.  I have talked with HP 
> about getting a font loaded on the printer, that was a dead end.  I am 
> running out of options.  Any help will be well received.
>
> Thanks,