How to tweak xemacs to print text files (including Japanese text)? My Suse 7.3 (german, professional) xemacs with Japanese support sends the text to the apsfilter but a2ps then fails. Sending euc encoded files directly to a2ps produces bakemoji, so my a2ps seems not to support Japanese. Is there a simpler solution than replacing a2ps with a patched version (as in http://www.on.cs.keio.ac.jp/~yasu/jp_a2ps.html) when I have all Japanese packages from Suse 7.3 (german, professional, dvd) installed? Also, there seems to be some unrelated encoding problem (see the end of this memo) that makes a2ps think a shifted-jis encoded file was sent to it instead of the normal euc encoded one (that is specified in xemacs). Printing Japanese html pages from netscape works fine, and gs can print latex'ed Japanese files fine. Some details: # a2ps --version GNU a2ps 4.13 After the failed printing from xemacs, I get the following mail From: (STDIN) <lp@linux.local> Subject: apsfilter: printer fault during job (STDIN) apsfilter: unable to print job (STDIN) Additionally, lpq -lllll reports (first failure after issuing a M-x ps-print-buffer, second failure after pressing the "Print" button): user@linux:~> lpq -lllll Printer: lp@linux 'y2prn_lp.upp auto' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'cfA280linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 06:35:49.373 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 06:35:49.375 Status: removing job 'cfA280linux.local' - ABORT at 06:35:49.807 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 06:36:40.013 Status: subserver pid 1346 starting at 06:36:40.217 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 06:36:40.218 Status: printing job 'user@linux+344' at 06:36:40.219 Status: processing 'dfA344linux.local', size 13152, format 'l', IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' at 06:36:40.220 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - '%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%' at 06:36:47.890 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1' at 06:36:47.892 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.683 Status: printing finished at 06:36:48.684 Status: finished 'user@linux+344', status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.684 Status: subserver pid 1346 exit status 'JABORT' at 06:36:48.688 Status: job 'cfA344linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 06:36:48.723 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 06:36:48.726 Status: removing job 'cfA344linux.local' - ABORT at 06:36:49.217 Status: subserver pid 1964 starting at 09:43:42.917 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 09:43:42.935 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 09:43:43.408 Status: printing job 'user@linux+962' at 09:43:43.436 Status: processing 'dfA962linux.local', size 146, format 'l', IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' at 09:43:43.437 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'a2ps: unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'' at 09:43:49.574 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - '%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: closefile ]%%' at 09:43:55.702 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1' at 09:43:55.705 Status: IF filter 'y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.540 Status: printing finished at 09:43:57.541 Status: finished 'user@linux+962', status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.541 Status: subserver pid 1964 exit status 'JABORT' at 09:43:57.622 Status: job 'cfA962linux.local' error 'aborting operations' at 09:43:57.722 Status: sending mail to 'root' at 09:43:57.725 Status: removing job 'cfA962linux.local' - ABORT at 09:43:58.213 As mentioned in the beginning, the "unknown encoding `ja_jp.sjis'" is also weird since (I believe) I set xemacs to encode files as euc-jp. I may be wrong, but I copied everything from http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/emacs-and-xemacs.html to my ~/.xemacs/init.el file. Thanks for any simple help and best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY mailto:wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at