Loading and using foreign language fonts, Limitations, Windows setup – Printronix PrintNet Enterprise User Manual

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Loading and Using Foreign Language Fonts

PNE supports Asian languages such as Korean, Simplified Chinese, and
Traditional Chinese. UTF-8 encoding is utilized since it has the ability to
support all known languages and is backwards compatible with ASCII
(specifically 0 - 7F).

Microsoft operating systems provide most of fonts for the world languages
which can be obtained from Microsoft’s web site. UNIX operating systems
such as Linux and Solaris requires more setup since the operating systems
provide less fonts than Microsoft. Java uses five logical fonts (Dialog,
Dialoginput, Serif, Sanserif and Monospaced) to map to the fonts on the
system. Mapping is done in the Java font.properties file. Dialog, size 12 is the
default font for all language dependent applications. Through mapping of the
font.properties file, the Dialog font supports all of the printer supported
languages. Mapping of operating system fonts should be performed by a
System Administrator.

Limitations

Not all of the items in the PNE Suite will display UTF-8. All PNE menus,
dialogs, tooltips and printer names will be displayed in ASCII.

Only the following applications, utilities, and displays support UTF-8
encoding:

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Printer Database status messages

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Printer configuration languages in the Configuration Editor

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Information Capture’s viewable configuration data

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Virtual Operator Panel text

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Factory Settings Differences table data

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Web page support (Printer List Page Message area only)

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SNMP Browser data

Older versions of PNE Suite (including previous products such as Advanced
Tool Kit, ODV Data Manager and EPC Data Manager) will not support new
printers with UTF-8 encoded byte streams.

All versions of PNE Suite that support UTF-8 encoding will support older
printer firmware versions.

Windows Setup

Java for Windows platforms includes a font.properties file that is used to map
foreign languages to Microsoft Window fonts. This includes all languages
supported on the printer.