Problems printing foreign characters

[itcheh]

Bit of an obscure one ... but someone might be able to help

We've been using a raw data printer component (VBGold Software - Free and shareware Visual Basic components, ActiveX controls (OCX), .NET controls, PDF Printing Components, Free VB projects and source code...) in one of our web-based applications in order to send commands directly to our printers, bypassing the need for print drivers/dialogues etc. This works fine.

However we seem to be unable to use it to send foreign (Unicode) characters to the printers.

If we send exactly the same set of characters to the same printer from Notepad for example, the printer can print the Unicode characters without an issue but from the raw data printer component it cannot.

What else other that Windows could it be referencing?

We've changed everything from the Windows language settings to the CHCP in DOS hoping to fix this but it just doesn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can try next?

I've tried getting hold of the Tech support but to no avail.