Japanese (platex) works fine with fontenc.

While not required for hyphenation, using T1 as default font encoding
helps with text in Latin script (pre-composed accented characters,
Nordic letters "eth" and "thorn").

diff --git a/lib/languages b/lib/languages
index bca57a6f9a782dacf3d0a6c2f89301203be53438..c7661325563ec221712e722ac8b2b751e88a7278 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/languages
+++ b/lib/languages
@@ -862,8 +862,7 @@ Language japanese
        Encoding         jis-platex
        LangCode         ja_JP
        Requires         japanese
-       InternalEncoding true
-       FontEncoding     None
+       FontEncoding     ASCII
        DateFormats      "yyyy年M月d日|yyyy/MM/dd|yy/MM/dd"
        QuoteStyle       cjk
 End