Hi there, I've been trying to type Japanese in Emacs, apparently in vain.
The toggle-input-method command works, since I find myself in the situation where I can start typing phonetically. I find the same behaviour as I had way back when I had compiled and installed Emacs on my Red Hat machine: I can choose the kanji I wish to see instead of the phonetic transcription I have typed. Except that I can't see any Japanese character on my screen. Nice little boxes instead, all looking the same, none looking as a Japanese character. So I guess it's a font problem. I have installed virtually all the font packages I found, apparently without any effect. Could this be something I missed with Emacs configuration? The /usr/share/emacs/20.5/etc/PROBLEMS file says : (Snip) * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes. Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires many different fonts, collected into a fontset. If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes. You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can display all the characters Emacs supports. (Snip) Unfortunately, the intlfonts package is removed and no longer available (dixit dselect). Any idea? -- Roland Mas It would be hard to be deader without special training. -- in Theatre of Cruelty (Terry Pratchett)