Problem  

Bug 4861491, affects Japanese locales. 

When you use the default printer font in the gedit application, Japanese characters are not displayed in Print Preview and are not printed by printers.

Solution  

Perform the following steps:  

• Open the gedit application.

• Choose Edit -> Preferences.

• Select Fonts from the Print category, in the Categories panel.

• For each print item, specify the HG-GothicB-Sun font.