[Ham-Computers] How To Print Unspeakable Foreign Punctuation Marks

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

No, not those kind! These are the ones that do not have a spoken language 
counterpart in our English language.

I have the HP4 Laser Printer that I bought new in 1998 for about $900. It 
works perfectly. However, I recently noticed while filling out QSL cards for 
some overseas Hams that the text in my DX Database did not match what was 
being printed on my address sheets. A sighted friend was getting very 
confused because what I was telling him and what was printed out, did not 
match.

The language that I encountered most of the issues was Espanol, which I 
happen to speak. Which helped in determing what was going on.

What the synthetic speech said, and what the printer printed out, were 
different. For instance, a word contained the letter "e", but when it was 
spoken by the speech synthesizer as I moved over the word one character at a 
time, was "e+" some kind of punctuation mark. The printer simply ignored the 
symbol!

Since I had copied the address from qrz.com, then pasted it into Word Pad, 
saved the document as a .txt file and then loaded it into my DOS word 
processing program to edit, my text did contain the symbol!

So I guess my question is this. How do I enable the HP4 Laser Printer to 
print these foreign punctuation symbols?

I suspect that I need to load in some special fonts, just a guess -

I have never loaded any special fonts, or anything else for that matter, 
into the HP4, as there has never been any reason to.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
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