Cyrillic sets CP 1048 conversion

Question

I am using a printer which needs Cyrillic sets CP 1048 for printing Kazak and Russian language in text mode. How do we convert a text to CP 1048? CP 1048 is combined character set for Kazak and Russian languages. These languages come together in text files and this code page is available as a standard feature in the printer.

Answer 1

You convert text with some kind of text encoding converter. Since it wasn't specified, I'll use a Python script. Note this requires Python 3.5 or later. That version first defined the kz1048 codec.

Unicode string to KZ-1048 encoding:

>>> 'Россия/Ресей'.encode('kz1048')
b'\xd0\xee\xf1\xf1\xe8\xff/\xd0\xe5\xf1\xe5\xe9'

Note in Python b'\xd0\xee' denotes a byte string containing the byte hexadecimal values D0 and EE, which in KZ-1048 represent Р and о.