This is Mark @ Brethren- tried saving the file as UTF-8 and using a unicode font in A7, but no go. I have a few words in japanese and a few in english and the english displays fine, but not the japanese. I've tried it with only japanese too, though it shouldn't matter, and it's still garbled. Simon thinks that the engine is only grabbing a byte at a time when rendering instead of double byte (which is consistent since the garbled japanese is twice as many characters as the input japanese text). Really curious how others got the text to display in the screenshots above!