mp Print Command Fails in European and Russian Unicode/UTF-8 Locales if American English, Chinese, or Korean Unicode/UTF-8 locales Not Installed (4805695) (Solaris 9 4/03 Release Notes)

Solaris 9 4/03 Release Notes

`mp` Print Command Fails in European and Russian Unicode/UTF-8 Locales if American English, Chinese, or Korean Unicode/UTF-8 locales Not Installed (4805695)

If you install any of the following European or Russian Unicode/UTF-8 locales, and do not also install the American English, Chinese, or Korean Unicode/UTF-8 locales, the mp print command fails.

de_DE.UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8
it_IT.UTF-8
es_ES.UTF-8
sv_SE.UTF-8
ru_RU.UTF-8

The mp print command will abort the print job and display the following error message:

mp: config file line: 46, cannot stat font file
(/usr/openwin/lib/locale/zh.GBK/X11/fonts/TrueType/songti.ttf)

Note –

This error also occurs in other CDE desktop applications: dtmail and dtpad, for example.

For more information about the mp print command, see the mp(1) man page.

Workaround: Choose from one of the following workarounds.

For a new installation or upgrade to the Solaris 9 4/03 operating environment, select and install one or more of the following American English, Chinese, or Korean Uniocde/UTF-8 locales:
- en_US.UTF-8
- zh_CN.UTF-8
- zh_HK.UTF-8
- zh_TW.UTF-8
- ko_KR.UTF-8

If you have already completed the installation or upgrade, manually add the SUNWgttf package that is located on the the Solaris 9 4/03 Software 1 of 2 CD or netimage. Complete the following steps:
1. Log in to the system as superuser.
2. Insert the Solaris 9 4/03 Software 1 of 2 CD.
3. Change to the /cdrom/sol_9*/s0/Solaris_9/Product directory.
  # cd /cdrom/sol_9*/s0/Solaris_9/Product
4. Add the SUNWgttf package.
  # pkgadd -d . SUNWgttf