On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:42:21AM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > I understand that people sometimes, even frequently, need to work with > non-UTF encodings. But you can get that effect on OpenBSD with a UTF-8 > locale and using iconv on incoming and outgoing data. I've been doing > so for Japanese and European content for over six years.
I'm pretty sure you want to engage the japanese people directly over that issue. I remember porting that software and struggling with it back when I needed japanese. I have no idea what's still good or not, but it's best to let them decide, for the most part.