Using the mp Utility

The mp utility supports all Asian locales. As a printing filter, mp generates a pretitified 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. As a print filter, mp(1) is enhanced in the Solaris 9 environment to print either EUCfile in the zh_TW locale, BIG5 file in the zh_TW.BIG5 locale, BIG5HK file in the zh_HK.BIG5HK locale or UTF-8 files in both the zh_TW.UTF-8 and zh_HK.UTF-8 locales.

Using mp is described in Traditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide, in the chapter "Traditional Chinese Printing Facilities," and in the mp(1) man page.

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

system%  mp filename | ld -d printer

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