This is a self-followup on the report below. kuro> kuro> I ran xemacs -nw within an EUC terminal emulator window, and: kuro> M-x set-terminal-coding-system euc-japan kuro> worked fine for displaying the Japanese text. kuro> I then typed: kuro> M-X set-keyboard-coding-system euc-japan kuro> then I entered some Japanese characters. No characters kuro> were inserted and I've got: kuro> No word found to check! kuro> error in the minibuffer. The exact error message differs depending on the Japanese character I enter. The point is that the Japanese characters are not self-inserted and bound to random functions. -kuro