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We can now print text files containing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text
from Babel.  The command for printing in these languages is 'cnprint'.  See
below for usage info.  Let me know if there are any bugs or suggestions for
the README file.

This command only works for text data, not fancy web pages.  If you wish to
print web pages in these languages, there are two options:
 1 - save them as text only (in Netscape, etc), which will lose the
graphics, and print them using cnprint.
 2 - if you want to keep graphics and other formatting, then use Windows
software such as MS Internet Explorer plus the appropriate (free)
downloadable language pack.  If you also get the global IME, you can even
input text in your favorite language (but only in IE and Outlook)

The following is a copy of the README file for cnprint which can be found on
Babel at:
/home/speech/bin/README-cnprint

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Instructions for cnprint:

You need to set a font path in .cshrc:
 setenv HBFPATH /home/speech/fonts

You also need to add /home/speech/bin to your path

This program is used to print text files containing double byte characters - 
 ie most characters used in Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean.

Note that these languages use multiple coding schemes (imagine multiple
varieties of
 ascii for English), so you need to know which system your file uses.

Here are the coding schemes and some sample corpora and other data:

Chinese
  big5 - tw.putonghua corpus and most files from Taiwan
  gb - no, not Chomsky.  call home mandarin, files from China
Japanese
  euc - call home Japanese, Japanese Unix files
  jis or jis8 - Most newer Japanese files, including Windows files and most
WWW stuff
Korean
  ksc - most? all? Korean data
Other
  There are other systems supported by cnprint.  Enter cnprint -h for a list
  or read cnprint290.help

Usage:
You must include the input file type, or you will get garbage (bakemoji) for
output.
cnprint -euc japanese-sample.txt
cnprint -big5 chinese-sample.txt
etc.

Other useful flags are:
-w  generates a postscript file but doesn't print
-i  skips dialog that normally appears before printing
-q=laserps  (ie -q=cuneifrm, -q=cyrillic) chose a printer (cyrillic is
 default)

see cnprint -h and cnprint190.help for more details.  You can also
  choose an output font, but cnprint does choose an appropriate
  default based on the input flag (-euc, -big5, etc).



NETSCAPE:
use -i option when printing from netscape (to avoid dialog)
only (and/or sometimes) works for text files - netscape appears to generate
ps output automatically
ps is *not* good input for cnprint - it will generate pages of junk.


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Douglas Roland				ローランド・ダグラス
Department of Linguistics		とんまな言語学者
University of Colorado			コロラド大学	
http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~rolandd  rolandd@colorado.edu
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