Ar an naoú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Mike FABIAN: 
 [...] use
 
     (set-language-environment "Japanese")
 
 but nevertheless see all German umlauts as single width? 
Put
(set-language-unicode-precedence-list 
   '(ascii latin-iso8859-1 latin-iso8859-2 latin-iso8859-3 latin-iso8859-4 
	   latin-iso8859-13 latin-iso8859-13 latin-iso8859-15
	   japanese-jisx0208 japanese-jisx0208-1978 japanese-jisx0212 
	   latin-jisx0201 katakana-jisx0201))
immediately after the call to set-language-environment, and that should fix
it. 
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