> I type in Japanese in textedit, mail and project builder without > difficulty.
I find I've had to fuss a bit with Project Builder's editor. Most of the docs, source, etc., I see are encoded in shift-JIS, but I haven't yet found a way to tell the PB editor what encoding to assume when opening a file. I have been able to figure out that it seems to pick up the byte order mark or something for UTF-16 (which surprised me). And it seems to require UTF-8 for compiling in C. (Maybe I should download the new version of the dev tools. I don't have the room on my vintage iBook's 5.6G drive, but I think Apple said the bulk of the documentation didn't have to be on the boot volume.) But I can tell Text Edit what encoding to assume and then save as UTF-8 or UTF-16, so there's a work-around. Unfortunately, that's not going to help the OP, near as I can tell. Do you recognize his "deg.TMGDBdeg.$D9$BBdeg.$D9deg.$E9deg.$D9-$DA$F5"? > Have you set the language and the script in the > international System preference? I like to have several users, each with different language and script settings. (Family account set to Japanese, of course.) I also find it convenient to have multiple scripts selectable, and the precedence defaults are pretty handy, as well. -- Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>