Xerox Printer manual Virtual keyboard and font character maps

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Virtual keyboard and font character maps

You can create virtual keyboard and font character maps and store them in the XPRM database after installation. During the compilation of forms, you can set the compiler to use the character maps to enable keyboard±to±font character mapping. Use the KEYBOARD parameter of the COMPILE command to specify the keyboard map you want to use. The keyboard characters are mapped to the corresponding graphic representations of the characters in the Xerox printer fonts. For more information on setting the compiler, refer to the ªUsing the COMPILE commandº section in the ªManaging and printing sample formsº chapter.

Normally, mapping is not required in the United States, but it is required in the following situations:

·When there are differences between your terminal keyboard configurations

·To accommodate varying character sets

·To accommodate the internal organization of characters within different fonts.

You must use a keyboard character map to access a font character map. In the United States, use the U.S. English keyboard character map.

Generally, you map the keyboard character to the corresponding character in each font used in the form. Figure 2±7 shows this process. In the example, the neutral double quote (") on the keyboard is mapped to the neutral double quote in the font.

					Figure 2±7.		Mapping process
				Virtual keyboard				Font character map
Keyboard emission				character map
		EBCDIC				Xerox		Xerox	ASCII		Font
Keyboard	Hexadecimal		Keyboard
						character		character	Hexadecimal		character
character	code point		table			identifier		identifier	code point		that prints
"
		7F		7F		000/042		000/042		F2	"

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