Problem over printing Vietnamese characters

Hi,
We installed the Vietnamese language. The Vietnamese charcaters can be
displayed properly. But we encountered error over printing Vietnamese
characters. The Vietnamese charcaters cannot be displayed properly.
What device type settings is needed for printing Vietnamese characters ?
Pls advise.
Thanks.
Edward

Hi,
As per your query you have to set swin type if you have any issue. If your system is given your country language then you can get the same with swin setting.
Anil

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Symptom
Documents printed via SAPscript or SmartForms do not print with correct special characters, e.g. ### prints instead of Japanese or Russian characters. What to do?
Other terms
SAPscript, SmartForms, printing, device types, OTF
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Latin-1 (Western Europe/Americas) *******
DE,EN,FR,ES,NL,SV       COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
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PL, CZ                  COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
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BG, RU, SR, UK          COURCYR, HELVCYR, TIMECYR
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EL                      COUR_I7, HELV_I7, TIME_I7
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ZH                      CNHEI, CNKAI, CNSONG
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JA                      JPMINCHO, DBMINCHO, DBGOTHIC
Korean **********************************
KP                      KPBATANG, KPDODUM, KPGULIM
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When analysing printing problems of this type, be sure to check the OTF data which gets produced by SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF or "Output Text Format" is the intermediate page-description format generated from SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF will contain the final printer font names and character set/language identifiers which help to solve the problem. OTF will even name the form and the language of the form used to create the output.
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