Is there some way to *edit* a latex file (using xemacs?) containing both German umlauts etc. (directly, that is, using \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} and seeing them as they are usually written, not as "a etc.) and Japanese characters at the same time? Is there some other editor for linux that can do this? I would prefer xemacs, but if it does not work for some reason, we will settle for another one. Related: Which latex (CJK?) do I need to correctly process the thus created file? Is it possible at all? How should the file be encoded? Background: I am trying to make someone switch from msword to latex for writing her thesis in German language, the topic being related to Japanese characters. Forcing this person to write "a instead of the corresponding umlaut on her keyboard will make this switch more difficult. Best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY