Chinese characters printing in Scripts in SAP

Hi,
I would like to print Chinese characters in the scripts in SAP Unicode system.
We are trying thru SAP but unable to print. If anyone already done this please help me to solve this.
Thanks,
Krishna chaitanya.

hi krishna
there are various factors like printers, script language settings influencing printing the chinese characters.First you can try to print the hardcoded chinese characters using locl instead of network printers. for this u need to copy the chinese characters and paste in the script using the native login (not nesscary to login to SAP in chinese login). If this works then u need to check the printer model supported by SAP for printing double byte characters. For more information pls post this Q in SCRIPT section of SDN. Also there are couple of notes availbale for troubleshooting this issue.
thkx
Prabhu

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