Printing in foreign languages works fine but does depend heavily on how you data is presented and also how the fonts are set up. We have printed in a variety of languages including Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese as well as all (well most of!) the European languages. If the data you are inputting uses Unicode then it really is just a case of buying the right fonts and then setting them up in XPP so all other fonts have access to them. This is a bit of a dark art but the fonts manual does guide you through it, however you may need to buy in some Professional Services to sort, in particular if there is no-one in your organisation who has dealt with installing fonts before.

Just like Chris said, using XPP to print different languages is in the first place a question of loading the proper fonts that will support the languages you want to produce.

But don't forget that if you need to set running text in a language, then you will also need to license the proper hyphenation and dictionary for that language.

I worked with one XPP site that had "problems" with CJK documents and line-breaking. This wasn't a bug as such, but the logic of hyphenation doesn't really apply with CJK, but they did have rules that certain characters had to stay on a line or be broken to a new line, taking its preceding character with it, plus several other rules. None of which were achievable using XPP's usual toolbox.

The (XML) data was processed up front to insert keep and break macros according to those rules. Otherwise, as others have stated, getting the unicode and fonts set up is most important.

Hello Mark,

For XPP to work with CJK document proper, the system requires Asian Language H&J algorithms license.

As all CJK characters are generated in mono space, so for setting the Chinese paragraph, you need to apply this H&J rule so that XPP can justify the line accordingly. For bilingual document, the English H&J and Asian Language H&J would have to switch between the language of the text.

Also, you need to set up the H&J spec that containing rules to avoid the CJK punctuation characters appearing at the beginning of the line, but some of the punctuation characters, like "(", "[" are allowed.

Hope all above helps.