Arabic printing in Solaris - a2ps support for iso-8859-6 {PUBLIC}

Senthilvelan Manickam <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:38:47 +0300
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Dear team,

We are trying to print Arabic text to one of the dot matrix printers that s=
upports Arabic from Solaris 10.

We have configured Generic ESC/P Dot Matrix Printer as printer model and fo=
omatic(S): Foomatic/epson as print driver in the printer configuration in S=
olaris.

When we print, English then it prints fine but when we print Arabic it prin=
ts junk. On investigation found out that a2ps can be called with -encoding =
and we don't find iso6(ISO-8859-6) as one of the supported encoding format.

I searched in the internet but could not get more info on this. Can you ple=
ase guide us on how to go about this.

Regards,
Senthil.



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<div>Dear team,</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>We are trying to print Arabic text to one of the dot matrix printers t=
hat supports Arabic from Solaris 10. </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>We have configured Generic ESC/P Dot Matrix Printer as printer model a=
nd foomatic(S): Foomatic/epson as print driver in the printer configuration=
 in Solaris.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>When we print, English then it prints fine but when we print Arabic it=
 prints junk. On investigation found out that a2ps can be called with &#821=
1;encoding and we don&#8217;t find iso6(ISO-8859-6) as one of the supported=
 encoding format. </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>I searched in the internet but could not get more info on this. Can yo=
u please guide us on how to go about this.</div>
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<div><b>Regards,</b></div>
<div><b>Senthil.</b></div>
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