I want to insert a handful of Japanese (katakana) characters in a latex document. I am using texlive and pdflatex.
I know I can use a Japanese typesetting package, such as CJK, and do something like this:
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min} ァィ \end{CJK} but I don't want to actually type (or copy/paste) the characters themselves, and I'd rather use the corresponding unicode, e.g. U+30A1.
I have tried \symbol{30A1} and \unichar{''30A1} with the packages:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage{textcomp} but neither work. I believe the corresponding fonts are installed, so maybe I am doing something wrong with the unicode?