It was a coding error that never impacted this before. This program used to print bar code and that
was commented out at one point. At some point, I am loading a field called PCL-10-BAR-CODE-UNSET
with ESC(028ESC(S and printing the line after advancing 0. ESC = escape character. There was a reason
for doing that at one time, but whatever it was, it is the culprit that is causing the problem. Removing
that line item from the print causes it all to work perfectly.

Thanks for all your help. You definitely helped lead me in the right direction. By sprinkling the print lines
with tildes, I was able to narrow it down to one sequence that wasn't causing me any problems until
these tildes started appearing in the data. Somehow, I was telling it to change tildes to u umlauts.
Such talent. Again, thanks!!! Problem is resolved!

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Keven Miller (3k) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:18 PM
To: Tom Hula
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP PCL Question

As I see it.
Symbol sets 082, 028, 012 do not have the tilde, but the umlaut char for char 126.

This output in line 3 selects set 082.
Then in line 6, 8, 082 again.
Line 10 selects set 028, but following data (line 11) is appears to be an overprint of empty or single blank char.
Line 12 selects set 082
   prints page, PLANT, dashes and header, then 1 data line.
Line 20 selects set 012 and prints BOLDED qty (my guess)
   then the line with the AZ004~
Line 22 selects set 082, and total follows.

This whole report is using 3 Symbol sets, none of which has a tilde char in it.
So unless you change the Symbol set to a set with tilde, you won't see one.

Thats why I replaced the 012 set with 00Z (some unknown) so printer uses default font.
    \e(012\e(s1p11v0s3b4148T    into    \e(00Z\e(s1p11v0s3b4148T
Just my take on it.

Keven Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Hula
To: Keven Miller (3k) ; [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 09:59 AM
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] HP PCL Question


Eliminating the cursor positioning didn't help.

Eliminating the sequence to select the bold font also didn't help.

Still getting the u umlaut.

I tried putting ~s in the text where it says "TOTAL ****" and that changed 
to u umlauts on the first page.

So that puts it in the detail print routine somewhere, but not in the cursor 
positioning escape sequence or
the bold font sequence.

Tom 

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