Topic: Swedish (Nordic) characters åäö or ÅÄÖ

By: Guest

Posted on: Feb 4 2009 at 12:11:39 PM

Help!
can not use the Swedish (Nordic) characters åäö or ÅÄÖ, what do I do?
characters used in comments and alarm lists.
would need a "transparant mode" (A=A.....Ö=Ö)

Otherwise easyDnc works excellent.
/Jari Lastikka

By: Support

Posted on: Feb 4 2009 at 09:55:58 PM

I suspect that easyDnc will support those characters without any problems. And if it is an easyDnc problem then we should be able to fix it quickly.

But . . .

Those characters are not part of the standard ISO/ASCII 7 bit characters set so your CNC might not understand them especially when communicating with 7bits.

Does your CNC even allow such characters in the data stream ? What CNC is it ? Are you communicating with 7bits (EvenParity) or 8bits (NoParity)

By: Guest

Posted on: Feb 5 2009 at 10:44:31 AM

Thank you for your fast response!

You might be right that it is not "standard characters" but it is standard ascii code (hex 5B-5D & 7B-7D).

if you look at [url] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Svensk_variant_av_kodtabell [/url]
(you have to you have to see the svedish version) then you understand my problem.

We use the characters in the Siemens Sinumerik 810D and 840D but also in other CNC machines.
I communicating with 7E1.

The characters used in the alarm texts and commentaries, see example.
-----------------
N170 MSG ("TEST åäö ÅÄÖ")
N180 G0 G602 G90 G17
N185 MSG ("KÖRNING TILL STARTLÄGE")
N190 GRD_AX
; NEUSTART MENU AUFRUF
N195 IF (NST[0]<>0)
N200 MSG ("NST MENY")
N205 NST_MENU
N210 ENDIF
; HILFPROGRAMM MENU AUFRUF
N215 IF (NST[1]<>0)
N220 MSG ("HJÄLPPROGRAM")
N225 HILF_MENU
N230 GOTOF END
N235 ENDIF
------------------
/Jari Lastikka :)

By: Support

Posted on: Feb 5 2009 at 01:18:23 PM

1. Does easyDnc display the nordic characters on the computer screen ?

2. Does your CNC have nordic characters on the keyboard allowing those characters to be entered in to the CNC manually ?

If your CNC is not specifically designed to display nordic characters then during data transfer the CNC would simply ignore the nordic characters and replace them with the [ ] symbols shown below - is that what`s happening ?

5B = [
5C =
5D = ]

By: Guest

Posted on: Feb 5 2009 at 02:57:15 PM

First of all, Sorry!! forget about hex codes from the past, I used a Hex-editor to find the right codes.
å=E5 ä=E4 ö=F6 Å=C5 Ä=C4 Ö=D6 (yes, I must use 8bit)

1. Yes, you can see the correct character when you do port scan, but Not when you receive the program with correct settings (9600 8N1)(easyDnc filtering the nordic characters when its receive).

2. Yes , I use easyDnc for backup only.

3. Sending is no problem , WYSIWYG

/Jari Lastikka

By: Support

Posted on: Feb 5 2009 at 06:40:53 PM

So nordic characters are displayed during PortScan but not during normal receive ?

Now I see the problem.

Give me a day or two and we`ll release an update.

Can we send an update direct to you so you can test that it meets your requirements ? If so please email me

support at easydnc dot com

.

By: Guest

Posted on: Feb 12 2009 at 12:11:42 PM

Yes, Now it works fine with all Swedish (Nordic) characters :-)

Thanks for the update and the excellent support.

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards,

Jari Lastikka

By: Guest

Posted on: Apr 25 2013 at 02:35:51 PM

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