Re: [tlug] Printing Japanese

[BABA Yoshihiko <babayoshihiko@example.com>]

Patrick,
 
On 2004.12.05, at 16:32, Patrick <patrick@example.com> wrote:

>I have had a terrible sunday pulling my hair out trying to get Japanese
>to print from the command line. My printer works fine, i can print
>japanese from ooffice and emails with evolution. However if i put some
>japanese text in a file and try to do "lp somefile.txt", I get nothing,
>no mojibake even... nothing, the printer does move though. 
>Normal ASCII text is prints fine with lp.

I'm no expert, but just two things to check:
Do you have JAPANESE_PS=YES in /var/spool/lpd/XXX/postscript.cfg ?
Is the file in EUC?

>I'm trying to get this to work on a debian box, but i also had a play
>with it on my gentoo box. Both with the same results.
>I was thinking about maybe installing a japanese distro like this ->
>http://www.n-linux.com/
>But it may not work out of the box either. 

You can try Japanese Knoppix, or Vine Linux.

Thanks
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BABA Yoshihiko
Kyoto Center for Community Collaboration
Fink Support, Translation and Documentation Team