Workstation Profile Parameter for Code Page

Sometimes customers prefer to use fonts created for other than Windows® systems. For example, MS DOS fonts use different code pages to represent the same Character Sets. Thus a MS DOS font that contains Latin 2 Character Set is encoded with 852 code page, a MS DOS font that contains Greek Character Set is encoded with 737 code page. For the print data coming from the host, Personal Communications needs to know how to translate host EBCDIC data characters into the PC ASCII data characters. This is done through a Translation Table (TT) that is created by matching host code page to PC code page. By default the TT entry used will be the Windows® default for each language.

Occasionally a font does not support the desired code page. The wrong characters may be printed within the specific character set (Latin 2, for example). Personal Communications has a workstation profile parameter that allows the program to use a different code page that is supported by the desired font.

However, because some Personal Communications releases might require manual adjustment of the workstation profile, try using different fonts before altering the .ws file. Fonts are listed in the Personal Communications Page Setup panel for all display sessions and 3270 host print sessions. For 5250 print sessions, the PCSPD.DAT file can be manually changed to control the fonts used. The Courier New font should support most languages and corresponding code pages.

[Printers] 
PrinterFontCodePage=852 

In this case, the desired font is encoded with code page 852. Personal Communications uses a different, existing translation table to translate data from EBCDIC to 852, versus using the standard Windows® code page.

This option is on the Page Setup panel for Personal Communications 5250 print sessions.