Using the mp Utility

The mputility supports all Asian locales. As a printing filter, mp generates a properly formatted version of the file content in PostScript format. Depending on the locale's system font configuration for mp, the Postscript output file contains glyph images from a scalable or a bitmap system font. The mp print filter is enhanced in the current Solaris release to print files of a certain type for each locale. See the mp(1) man page for more information.

You can use a command line such as the following to print a file with Traditional Chinese characters. The file might also include ASCII/English characters.

system%  mp filename | ld -d printer