>>”Next time, try googling for an answer in Japanese.
Keywords used this time: emacs utf-8 漢字入力”

Instead, I think “emacs utf-8 漢字　表示” makes more sense, since my problem at least was displaying, not inputting Japanese utf-8.　The article is also about display, not input…

Anyway that’s my 2cents. Thanks again!

Gotcha! I’m not into programming at all, though I do know about text editors like vi, vim, and emacs from openSUSE installed on my thinkpad. Most of my digging around is done in dictionaries.

Cheers …

Next time, try googling for an answer in Japanese.

Keywords used this time: emacs utf-8 漢字入力

Result and jackpot: http://softsupport.seesaa.net/article/25598905.html

Tadaa! Two months of grief reduced to twenty-seconds, just like that.

Oh, I did searches similar to that, and it’s such a search that lead to the solution. Most of the two months was trying to figure out where the problem was…. I didn’t know whether it was a problem with my Mac or its Terminal app, my shell settings, the Debian Linux box I was connected to, its emacs install, or my ’screen’ install or settings. I was futzing with installing new versions of emacs, old versions of emacs, reading the man page for ’stty’ a dozen times. As far as I could tell, emacs wasn’t getting the input (I wondered whether it put the tty into some weird kind of state I’d never heard of), so to test this, I built a version of emacs that displayed the raw bytes of keyboard input as they came in, and indeed, emacs was getting the input. From that point, it took 15 minutes of digging around to solve the problem, and another 15 minutes to write the post. —Jeffrey