[tlug] Printing Japanese text files

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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I learned a way to print Japanese text files, eg created with vi that
some might find helpful.  It requires having openoffice installed.

I was looking at an article about UTF-8 in Linux at

http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html

The author mentions that (as Josh has pointed out before) openoffice
translates to postscript.  Therefore, if you don't have a postscript
capable printer (Josh has also mentioned that if you do, you can set the
postscript level to 2 in the CUPS printer configuration dialog) you can
use OO as your postscript converter.  The OO command varies (for
example, in FreeBSD it's openoffice.org, in Ubuntu, I ~think~ it's
ooffice.)  So, in FreeBSD if I have a Japanese textfile, called
nihongo.txt I can print it with the command

openoffice.org -p nihongo.txt

There are of course, other postscript converters, but in my idle
experiments, I haven't found one that successfully converted Japanese in
Unicode or EUC.  The author of the page linked above mentions paps, but
it's not a port in FreeBSD, though I'm sure it could be made to work.


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