HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Internationalization
Printing Using Asian TrueType Fonts for HP PCL5 Printers
Chapter 10
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Documentation
Refer to the Japanese System Environment User’s Manual and to the iconv (3C)
manpage.
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
Printing Using Asian TrueType Fonts for HP PCL5
Printers
A text file including Asian characters can be printed on an HP PCL5 printer using Asian
TrueType fonts which are installed by default in HP-UX.
Summary of Change
The PCL5.asian printer model that works with the lp command has been enhanced to
print as many Asian characters as possible by accessing both printer resident fonts and
host-installed TrueType fonts. In previous HP-UX releases, PCL5.asian model supported
printer-resident fonts only.
If there are no Asian resident fonts in a PCL5 printer, use the -onodimm option for the
PCL5.asian model in order to download the Asian characters rasterized from
host-installed TrueType fonts.
Host-installed TrueType fonts are Mincho and Gothic typefaces for
ja_JP.SJIS/ja_JP.eucJP/ja_JP.utf8 locales; Batang and Dotum typefaces for
ko_KR.eucKR/ko_KR.utf8 locales; Sun and Hei typefaces for
zh_CN.hp15CN/zh_CN.gb18030/zh_CN.utf8 locales; and Ming typeface for
zh_TW.ccdc/zh_TW.big5/zh_TW.eucTW/zh_TW.utf8/zh_HK.hkbig5/zh_HK.utf8
locales. The character sets of these TrueType fonts comply with country and regional
standards.
When the specified locale is utf8, the PCL5.asian model tries to use as many country
typefaces as possible to print multilingual text.
Impact
A larger set of Asian characters is available for printing when you use Asian UTF-8
locales.
Compatibility
Backward compatibility has been preserved.