First Question: Does anyone know of a Windows 3.x driver for
the Brother Twinriter 5 (HR-35DD)? This is a printer which has both
a 9-pin printhead and a daisywheel, and emulates either an Epson
FX-100 or a Diablo-630.
Second Question: How can one convince the FX-100 driver to send
appropriate sequences when printing extended ASCII chars (like German
Umlauts) in the printer’s native fonts, rather than sending periods instead?
This also relates to the above Printer, it can select various national
charsets which redefine the chars "[\]{|}~" to print various accented
characters. This is also true of the Epson FX-100 printer; why does
the Windows 3.1 driver not send the appropriate escape sequences
but sends a period instead?
Alternatively, if one could convince the driver to use the extended
IBM-PC charset, the printer could handle that. (The Proprinter driver
does this, unfortunately some of the other Proprinter codes are not
compatible with FX-100 codes).
Is there maybe a character table in the driver which one could patch?
I guess the source code to EPSON9.DRV is not available for hacking?
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