Japanese text printing issue

[Michael Sweet]

Ramanujam wrote:
> Hello. I am facing the following issue when printing through CUPS (though I am not sure if this is the right forum).
> 
> Setup:
> Printer: Canon iP4100R
> Driver: Cannon PIXUS iP4100R - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.0-rc1
> Operating System: Ubuntu 8.10
> $LANG = ja_JP.UTF-8
 > ...

The standard CUPS distribution does not include fonts for Japanese, so
printing UTF-8 text files directly will yield blanks for any
characters not covered by the Deja-Vu fonts.

Red Hat includes a Pango-based text filter (texttopaps) that can
print Japanese UTF-8 text using system fonts - I'm not sure if it is
available for Ubuntu in a convenience package...

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