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.

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[n-true.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. Well, WinMX is a peer-to-peer program where you can download mp3s and other files from other users... quite much like KaZaA, Morpheus, eDonkey, eMule and the former Napster.

Hmm... maybe it even works for Trillian? :3
Oh, and does it maybe support UTF-8 as well, so I could as well write and read Cyrillic and Greek? That would be neat. :]

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well... kind of. It is rather wedded to the CJK languages.

It supports UTF-8, but you have to choose between "Chinese UTF Simplified", "Chinese UTF Traditional", "Japanese UTF-8 UTF-7", and "Korean UTF-8 UTF-7". And then it will only display characters in its internal font for that charset, I believe.

There are Greek and Cyrillic letters in most CJK charsets, so you'll see something... but it won't be terribly pretty. For one, the Cyrillic/Greek letters are doublewidth (the width of a hanzi, not the width of a normal letter) and there aren't any accented Greek letters nor final-s.

And there's no easy way to enter those characters without clicking on an on-screen table. But when you do that, you apparently get normal characters in a Unicode-aware system -- here's what I just produced that way (in this case, with the Chinese IME and "Symbols Input"): водка, Σοφοκλησ.

Try it and see.