I've downloaded a large file that is supposed to contain a mixture
of Japanese and English (it's basically a learner's dictionary).
The English is displayed correctly, but not so for the Japanese.
I've tried setting the buffer's coding system to utf-8,
japanese-shift-jis, japanese-shift-jis-mac, japanese-shift-jis-dos
(just guessing). None worked.
In fact, I'm not even sure that any of these changes of the coding
system achieved *anything*, since the buffer's appearance remained
unchanged throughout all this mucking around. I used the command
set-buffer-file-coding-system to do this. Should I need to do
anything besides re-setting the coding system to see a change in
how the file is displayed?