RE: Russian Text

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you have RPG xTools, you can do this:

xLateCCSID(usText : RusText : %size(usText) : 0 : 878)

This will translate the characters from job's EBCDIC CCSID to the Russian
Internet Cyrillic CCSID of 878. If you don't have xTools, you can call the
raw OS/400 APIs to do the conversion. 
Remember, this only translates the characters not the words/language itself.
For that you'll need a translator program.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Alan C
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:52 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Russian Text

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,
>

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