Hello, I am attempting to translate the board into Japanese, and wanted to use UTF-8 to allow people to post in multiple languages, however I'm running into a slight problem. This might be a perl limitation, or perhaps the way the board was programmed, but when I change the contents of the language files into unicode, the board gives an error about unrecognized characters in the language file. If I save it as ANSI (Shift-JIS for Japanese) while changing the browser encoding to UTF-8, of course it won't display correctly. The thing that confuses me is that the posts I make in the forum in UTF-8 display fine. The partial subject listing on the index also displays fine (although I had to increase the max length to 24 to prevent it from turncating in the middle of a unicode character). Does anyone have any ideas about how to enable unicode when making the menus into a non-european language?

You'll probably need to use the unicode character, and then change the charset in the Language pack, and make sure it's in the Template for that charset.

The problem is that when I save the *.lng files as UTF-8 encoding, I get an error every time I try to execute Blah.pl saying that it gets an invalid character from line 1 of the language file. It doesn't even read the .lng file up to the place where I specify the encoding type. This makes sense, though, since perl needs its code to be in ANSI, even though it saves strings as Unicode. The dilemma here is how can I set strings to unicode contents, even though I'm only able to input the characters in the code itself as Shift-JIS?

Hmm, I think I may have discovered the cause of my problem. My server is only running Perl 5.0. I think it's time to talk to the system admin.