Re: [tlug] CJK Printing from Web Browsers in Centos 4.2

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:

    Matt> So if you have, say, a PCL printer, does CUPS render the
    Matt> output to PS Level 2, then send it to a filter that converts
    Matt> to PCL? If so, it seems awfully roundabout. Is there no
    Matt> simpler way to do it?

Have coffee before posting, Matt---you know better.  :-)  That _is_
the simple way to do it.  Find an intermediate virtual platform with
the union of the capabilities of the source and target sets, and
convert an n^2 problem to a 2*n problem.  BOW![1]

glibc's implementation of iconv (aka gconv) works on the same
principle, as does Emacs.  Not to mention the Internet and the US
airline network ("hub and spoke" architecture).  And as the exception
that proves the rule, so does the Japanese highway system (which
converts 2*n travel times to n^2 travel times, and turns distance into
something that is not a metric, as well :-).[2]

Footnotes: 
[1]  Big Ol' Win.

[2]  Why "hub and spoke" is smart in the other cases and dumb for
highways is left as an exercise for the reader.

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