Using the mp Utility

The mp utility supports all Asian locales including UTF-8 locales. As a print filter, mp generates a pretified version of contents in PostScript format. The Postscript output file contains glyph images from Solaris system-resident scalable or bitmap fonts, depending on each locale's system font configuration for mp.

A typical command line for printing a file named filename containing Simplified Chinese characters with or without ASCII/English characters, would be as follows:

system% mp filename | lp -d printer

Make filename the name of the file to print. This file can contain ASCII/English characters as well as Simplified Chinese.