Japanese

Configuring Japanese input in Emacs using Anthy

When writing Japanese under Ubuntu, I use Anthy (one of popular Japanese input systems) with IBus (Intelligent Input Bus for Linux / Unix OS) input method for all X applications but Emacs. Interestingly, there seems to be no IBus interfaces available to Emacs at this moment. For Emacs, I use Anthy through anthy.el interface, which seems to be the most common option when writing Japanese under Emacs. In this post, I summarize how to configure Japanese input with Anthy under Emacs.

Sending Japanese emails by a Perl script

WARNING: Thanks to a generous feedback from J, I have realized that the following method using ISO-2022-JP for Japanese emails is obsolete. Accordingly, I would like to mark the main part of this article as NOT-RECOMMENDED. Instead, in the comment column below, I have posted a fixed script that uses UTF-8. This UTF-8 based emailing script should work not only for Japanese but also for any other non-English languages as well.

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