e.g. .zlogin: export LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 .xinitrc: uim-xim & export XMODIFIERS="@im=uim" .vimrc: set encoding=utf-8 set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,euc-jp,shift-jis,iso-2022-jp,default,latin1 .Xdefaults: URxvt.font: xft:FONT_NAME etc. -- Ryosuke