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bryce

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From: Tokyo

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 14

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Printing Japanese characters

hi all,

i've run out of information and ideas to apply to this problem, so i'm hoping someone may be knowledgeable in this area.
i'm using cups and kde, on a current archlinux system.  my kde and scim configuration work fine to see and input japanese.
the basic problem is, i need to print japanese characters, but i can't (sort of).

printing alphabet from kde apps, mozilla and openoffice works fine.
printing japanese characters from openoffice works fine.
printing japanese characters from mozilla and kde gives me boxes instead of valid characters.

can anyone point me in a likely direction to solve this problem?

i'll give my heart to the one who is genius enough for the challenge.

bryce

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jerek

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 16

Re: Printing Japanese characters

I used to have the problem of seeing only boxes in some programs (don't know about printing since I don't have a printer at the moment) and it went away after installing some other japanese fonts (only had IPA fonts before). In particular I installed

mikachanfont
ttf-kochi-substitute
ttf-mona
ttf-sazanami

You can find all of them in AUR.
If you don't wanna install all of them I'd try the mona one first.
Can't guarantee that it will work, but if you've tried everything else you might wanna give it a shot