Found it!

[pne]

*Phew*

Now that I read linguaphiles regularly, it didn't take me long before I noticed one program I had forgotten to install on the new hard drive -- NJ Communicator! To enable me to read and write Chinese, Japanese, and Korean even in applications which normally don't support that.

Reading wasn't so important since Opera can display CJK (and I don't read much Usenet these days otherwise it comes in handy for sci.lang.japan and occasionally in sci.lang), but I wanted it for the input methods.

I had downloaded Microsoft's Global IMEs for all four CJK locales but that only works in MSIE. But now I can install NJ Communicator and input also in Opera.

Comments

[timwi.livejournal.com]

What Windows are you using? On Windows 2000, I'm not having any problems inputting CJK (using standard Windows IMEs) into Opera.

[pne.livejournal.com]

What Windows are you using?

Windows 98SE ... next to no built-in Unicode support (like all Win9x), so it's not surprising that the "global" IMEs only work in MS applications.

I think the global IMEs I downloaded only work inside MSIE text boxes and MS Outlook (also Express?) HTML emails.

And on Windows NT, which we have at work, I can't use the global IME in Opera, either. It's simply not an option in the keyboard switcher unless I'm in an MSIE textbox or Outlook.