why dos cant print chinese character

Question

hi all,

i using foxpro to print my report but the alignment is not correct.

therefore i use another way round using foxpro call run textfile.txt >LPT1 then the printing alignment is solved.

But another problem is it cant print chinese characters.

Wat i shud do ?

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Answer 1

It should not a vfp problem, try quit vfp and run c:\>type mytext.txt > lpt1 at dos prompt to see if any Chinese characters. It should only work if your printer has build-in BIG5 character ROM.

Answer 2

oooo ic ya i have even type cmdat dos prompt echo test >lpt1 but cant show the chinese characters. thanks FYI.