Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
Doug, I wrote a couple short extension methods which convert from Arabic to UTF-16 and back. The pattern goes like this: - Get input from GUI - Convert from known code page to utf-16, in this case that's windows-1256 - Save the data into MV ... it's just text and doesn't get munged on the wire To display in GUI: - Read the text from MV - Convert back from utf-16 to original code-page - Display in GUI I believe you would just substitute a different code page for other languages - obviously it must be the same language going in both directions, this isn't Bablefish. ;) It works great for platforms that have no I18N or other language support. This dealer in Amman Jordan has 40 old mvBase systems in the field that are now adopting a GUI based on mv.NET and this small bit of code. I don't think you can sort or select on this kind of data in MV. Although once it was in the DBMS, I think we were able to see everything great with AccuTerm in a character interface. It works in D3 too. I didn't try any others. U2 might support a better storage mechanism, so let's see what others say. But I'll be happy to provide the C# code that does the translation. Just email me. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms From: doug chanco Subject: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters anyone care to share any suggestions on the best way to create pick records that include chinese/spanish characters via c# and uniobjects or just c# and writing to a unix file? I have some ideas I am mulling around in my head but I thought I'd tap into the vast knowledge base available on here. I am basically looking at creating a pick record (or a unix one) that is a mixture of html and text (in english/chinese and spanish). any thoughts/suggestions are extremely welcomed ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
We process and store most of our info in utf-8 - this includes multiple European languages, not currently Chinese tho but that should not be an issue if it is encoded in utf-8. We also use uniobjects.net with this data no problem. Well I say no problem - you do have to make sure your lang settings are correct, and that you know in your code if you are dealing with utf-8 encoded data or not - otherwise you can get tied up. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of doug chanco Sent: 05 April 2013 03:49 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters hi all, anyone care to share any suggestions on the best way to create pick records that include chinese/spanish characters via c# and uniobjects or just c# and writing to a unix file? I have some ideas I am mulling around in my head but I thought I'd tap into the vast knowledge base available on here. I am basically looking at creating a pick record (or a unix one) that is a mixture of html and text (in english/chinese and spanish). any thoughts/suggestions are extremely welcomed thanks dougc ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
Also if you are running u2 on linux the iconv utility (not the u2 ICONV, linux iconv) is essential when dealing with different character encodings. But there are a few undocumented features on here called //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE that it is worth googleing about. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: 05 April 2013 08:05 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters Doug, I wrote a couple short extension methods which convert from Arabic to UTF-16 and back. The pattern goes like this: - Get input from GUI - Convert from known code page to utf-16, in this case that's windows-1256 - Save the data into MV ... it's just text and doesn't get munged on the wire To display in GUI: - Read the text from MV - Convert back from utf-16 to original code-page - Display in GUI I believe you would just substitute a different code page for other languages - obviously it must be the same language going in both directions, this isn't Bablefish. ;) It works great for platforms that have no I18N or other language support. This dealer in Amman Jordan has 40 old mvBase systems in the field that are now adopting a GUI based on mv.NET and this small bit of code. I don't think you can sort or select on this kind of data in MV. Although once it was in the DBMS, I think we were able to see everything great with AccuTerm in a character interface. It works in D3 too. I didn't try any others. U2 might support a better storage mechanism, so let's see what others say. But I'll be happy to provide the C# code that does the translation. Just email me. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms From: doug chanco Subject: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters anyone care to share any suggestions on the best way to create pick records that include chinese/spanish characters via c# and uniobjects or just c# and writing to a unix file? I have some ideas I am mulling around in my head but I thought I'd tap into the vast knowledge base available on here. I am basically looking at creating a pick record (or a unix one) that is a mixture of html and text (in english/chinese and spanish). any thoughts/suggestions are extremely welcomed ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] How do you print a .pdf from inside a Unix Box
First up - Adobe PDF is a subset of the Adobe Postscript page description language (PDL). Some printer vendors have Postscript emulations. Most business class laser/LED printers or multi-function devices (MFDs) today have intelligent page description language detection built in and typically analyse the datastream before attempting to do anything with it...mean that they can switch between plain text from UniVerse or UNIX or PDF/Postscript or HP PCL / PXL formats and others on-the-fly... Some modern printers have Adobe PDF and Adobe Postscript (or an emulation) built-in. Meaning they can be sent files in either format. . (Side note - Google: PDF Direct Print support). If you have printers are capable of accepting Adobe PDF files - then just simply submit an those files direct to the printer from your host. If your printer has Adobe Postscript or a Postscript emulation - you translate the PDF data file into 'native' Postscript via Ghostscript or similar toolset prior to sending it to the printer. If you don't have any Postscript capable printers - you can - using Ghostscript translate the file from PDF into HP PCL or similar PDL (many are supported). Then send the generated output to your printer queue. You can write custom version of the Ghostscript supplied 'ps2pdf' script to generate to PCL file from an Postscript file (and call the script, say ps2pcl). It's not difficult to customise this scripts for your own output device (printer, image file, etc)... have done this before... As implied by others - you won't have the same capabilities nor any options to dynamically or selectively control over the output (orientation, N-up printing, duplex, tray selection, page-fit, paper type, copies, page range, etc)... that you can perform from Windows Acrobat PDF viewer. An alternative to this is to perhaps utilise one or more host-based printer print queue defined for (some of these may be feasible) such printing preferences, etc. HPJetDirect for HPUX and other UNIX platforms is pretty feature rich especially when talking with HPDirectJet printers... See what Adobe has on this issue here: http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdf.html Cheers, David -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Conway - Bamac LTD Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013 2:54 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] How do you print a .pdf from inside a Unix Box I may have missed this discussion but if someone can help me that would be great. We have been executing a SB command to windows to open Adobe and print the PDF document. We would like to either not have to open Adobe and print the document or print the document from within our Unix box. We have a hp7640 11iv3 running on an Itanium processor. Here is the Unidata information: Module Name Version Licensed UniData RDBMS 7.2 Yes Connection Pooling... 7.2 No Device License... 7.2 No NFA.. 7.2 No RFS.. 7.2 No EDA.. 7.2 No 721 Oh, love this list, I have been using Pick since 1985 and still going strong. Bruce ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ** IMPORTANT MESSAGE * This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ** ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
I'll cast another vote for UTF-8. This mechanism for storing and transmitting Unicode data is elegantly designed, and it should be usable in almost any legacy system that allows 8-bit data. Take a look at its byte value allocations: * Hex-00 through hex-1F are standard control characters, like ASCII. * Hex-20 through hex-7F exactly match ASCII. * Hex-80 through hex-9F are not used, because they might conflict with high (C1) control codes. * Hex-A0 through hex-FF are used in various combinations to represent international characters; EXCEPT * The codes for multi-value mark, etc., are not used. * It's a stateless system; that is, it doesn't phase shift from one scheme to another. Unicode data stored this way can include English, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Braille, Byzantine musical symbols, and on and on. The precautions you must take, off the top of my head, are: * You can't assume that one byte of storage represents one character or one screen cell. * You must be careful not to break a character in half (or thirds, etc.) * You must be careful with anything that inputs or outputs data, to make sure it works in UTF-8. By the way, our terminal emulation (Anzio) and printing programs (Print Wizard) handle UTF-8 very well. On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Symeon Breen wrote: We process and store most of our info in utf-8 - this includes multiple European languages, not currently Chinese tho but that should not be an issue if it is encoded in utf-8. We also use uniobjects.net with this data no problem. Well I say no problem - you do have to make sure your lang settings are correct, and that you know in your code if you are dealing with utf-8 encoded data or not - otherwise you can get tied up. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of doug chanco Sent: 05 April 2013 03:49 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters hi all, anyone care to share any suggestions on the best way to create pick records that include chinese/spanish characters via c# and uniobjects or just c# and writing to a unix file? I have some ideas I am mulling around in my head but I thought I'd tap into the vast knowledge base available on here. I am basically looking at creating a pick record (or a unix one) that is a mixture of html and text (in english/chinese and spanish). any thoughts/suggestions are extremely welcomed thanks dougc ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
On 05/04/2013 23:37, Bob Rasmussen wrote: * The codes for multi-value mark, etc., are not used. iirc, if you use UV NLS (and presumably UD too) the mark characters have UTF-8 values assigned. Don't have a clue what they are, though. Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters
It's a critical point, and worth verifying. If someone will verify what UV NLS does, that'd be great. In the Unicode manual, it states that in UTF-8, no byte can have a value higher than hex-F4. On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Anthonys Lists wrote: On 05/04/2013 23:37, Bob Rasmussen wrote: * The codes for multi-value mark, etc., are not used. iirc, if you use UV NLS (and presumably UD too) the mark characters have UTF-8 values assigned. Don't have a clue what they are, though. Cheers, Wol ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
