I've been wondering for a while, but is there any way to get Japanese input / output support in the framebuffer console?

What's slowing you down, specifically?

I'm not a user of framebuffers, but I'll just throw a question in the hope that it'll get you closer to the answer. Does it make difference, with framebuffer, if you select extra supported languages/charsets in the kernel configuration? I have to say I don't have the faintest idea, but I haven't come up with any other reason for those being in the kernel. There's a long list of different charsets..maybe check out?

It can be this has nothing to do with the matter, and in that case simply ignore my post..

EDIT: better yet, correct me.

Specifically, I'm looking for multilang support in emacs or other console-based text editors. I'm not sure how it is done, but for instance, the Kubuntu text install has Japanese as an available language, and that is a curses-based interface. This is doable. Anyone have any luck here?