Japanese Characters in a hex editor.

[Mallos31]

I was hoping someone here had some experience getting Japanese characters to display in ANY hex editor. I've been researching and found that most people apparently use WindHex32 with a character table. When I tried this, it would not show the Japanese characters, but instead a combination of two ASCII characters. (for example, the character ã— in Hiragana comes out as ",µ" without quotes as the Hex identifier is 0x82B5) I could really use a hand here. Thanks guys!  

[xdaniel]

Hex Workshop v4.23, started through AppLocale and set to Japanese, with Hex Workshop set to use the Windows ANSI character set:

 

 

 

 

AppLocale needs a workaround to be installed on systems running Vista or higher, as mentioned in the Wikipedia article; running Windows 7 here and it works fine once installed. You can probably get it to work with other hex editors, too, if you start them through AppLocale.

 

[Mallos31]

Thanks xdan! This will be a huge help. I've had nothing but problems since I started trying to do this. (Started translating by hand, but that takes too long, and so far only gets the text that is readily available on screen) 

[Mallos31]

Okay, I might just be dumb here, but I can't seem to figure out how to run Hex Workshop with ANSI. I successfully installed AppLocale, I have Hex Workshop 4.23 as suggested running through it in Japanese mode, but I can't figure out how to change the character set. The internet isn't being too helpful. 

 

 

EDIT: Never mind. I got it to work successfully with MadEdit. That one even formats text nicely, so it's good. Thanks! 

[xdaniel]

Just for the record, in Hex Workshop, "Options" -> "Preferences" -> "Display" tab -> "Character Filter" drop-down. Good to hear you've got it to work in another editor, tho!