Character Encodings

• WONDERFUL introduction
• Shift JIS tables — one, two, three, more
• EUC-JP — one,
• symbols/punctuation

Converting Encodings

• ambiguities outlined by w3.org

Fonts

• code2000?
• MSMincho.ttc is the main serif font. It can be downloaded here (or maybe here)
• MSGothic.ttc is the main sans-serif font. It can be downloaded here
• Adobe has some fonts available also (but only applies to Acrobat)
• random webpages: one, two

Conversion/Detection Software

• iconv
• nkf (unix)
• kcc (unix)

Windows

• Acrobat Reader: install this for Adobe-specific fonts and character mappers

Unix

• Putty supports UTF-8 output, among other things. (tips on getting it working... 1) install MSMincho, per above, 2) change the Translation settings to UTF-8, and 3) in Window Appearance, Font, change the font to "MS Gothic")
• GNU screen... start it with the "-U" option to tell it to use UTF-8 for the encoding (should be used for both screen creation, and screen re-attachment)
• Vim: add "set encoding=utf-8" to your .vimrc
• Mutt: See this for compiling info, and this for sample .muttrc settings.
  • iconv should be used to convert between formats
• less: setenv LESSCHARSET=utf-8
• TODO: use iconv -f ?? -t UTF-8 to convert text/plain mail parts to unicode, so I can read them directly from Mutt
• random webpages: one

IME

• download here
• howto: one, two, declan-software,
• in Vim, typing Ctrl+K,a,- gives a ā. Similarly for ō and others.

To-Do's

• Why does the "o"-with-macron show up weird in a lot of circumstances? (notably in my numbers.html I'm working on)

Random tools

• Brett's Absolutely Astounding Interactive Searchable Unicode Chart

Research/Linguistics

• Word segmentation: one