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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[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.