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

[Philip, KO6BB]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Pewitt" <n9zsv at magtel.com>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] How To Print Unspeakable Foreign Punctuation 
Marks


> Duane, try this page        http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm    lots of 
> free fonts.
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> At 07:16 PM 11/5/2008, you wrote:
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>>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
>>Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
>>HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net
>>
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