https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=343820#c1 --- Comment #1 from Mike Fabian 2007-11-23 07:19:55 MST --- Original description in fate #303014: Support for paps for JIS X 0213:2004, alternatively enhance a2ps The customer is IBM Japan. The customer demand is that adding paps package to SLES10. NOTE: paps package URL is paps.sourceforge.net paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. The purpose to add the package is to print out Japanese letters that addressed in JIS X 0213:2004 (sjis2004). The code map references from URL http://charset.info/sjis-2004-std.txt Current printout method for Japanese plain text is a2ps.pl that from opensuse, But it does not support JIS X 0213:2004 (sjis2004) and it does not support SLES10 officially as well. paps printout supports JIS X 0213:2004 (sjis2004) on SLES10. so paps support is necessary with SLES10 as default. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=343820#c3 --- Comment #3 from Dr. Werner Fink 2007-11-23 07:46:11 MST --- For modifying a2ps I prefere a multibyte patch which enables real multibyte handling for *all* endcoding not only one specific language in one (IMHO broken) encoding. For a newer (alpha versioned) a2ps you may look at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=343820#c5 --- Comment #5 from Mike Fabian 2007-11-23 08:34:36 MST ---

Current printout method for Japanese plain text is a2ps.pl that from opensuse, But it does not support JIS X 0213:2004 (sjis2004) and it does not support SLES10 officially as well.

paps printout supports JIS X 0213:2004 (sjis2004) on SLES10. so paps support is necessary with SLES10 as default.

Have you also tried “uniprint” from the “yudit” package? “yudit” isn’t available on SLES10 officially either, but just like with a2ps.pl, you can use the package from openSUSE, it should work. “uniprint” from “yudit” is quite similar to “paps” and has the advantage that we already have a package in autobuild. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=343820#c7 --- Comment #7 from Klaus Singvogel 2007-11-27 02:46:12 MST --- I'm wondering why IBM Japan is demanding for a tool, which is not provided by us, and no one at Novell/SuSE ever heart about the tool before? If you google for "utf-8 text file printing" and only together with "red hat" you will find as first document: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_11647.shtm ..where "paps" is presented as the only tool to print out utf-8 text files. :-( Maybe we should convince our customer, that we are NOT RedHat. That we provide our own tools, which ARE present in our product, and which ARE working to print out utf-8 text files? What do you think? Please don't forget: NEEDINFO is still present for this bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.