Best way to display Japanese in a text file?

[ZeaLitY]

After releasing the Retranslation script, I set to work making a new text file to replace the old script and allow something that can still be easily searched by fans for original Chrono Trigger dialogue. Initially believing it to be impossible to extrapolate the Retranslated lines and the Japanese lines from the Excel file, I found a way (though I had to duplicate all location markers, like [Enhasa], across each script). Problem is, I'm not sure what to do with the Japanese, since this is the copy that will be going on Gamefaqs. Would it go in as Unicode or something?

Whoops, forgot about http://ce.herograw.org/JPScript/ctjscript.txt. I'll e-mail JLukas.

[Ramsus]

Use UTF-8 or Shift-JIS and make note of what you decide on in the file.

More importantly, use a text editor that lets you properly handle text encoding.

[Teh Mick]

I would use UTF-8.

[JLukas]

I use NJStar for converting between formats (which is necessary becuase Translhextion uses SJS)  Converting a file to Unicode or UTF-8 allows it to be displayed in Notepad/Wordpad without needing any special software (assuming Windows XP with the language packs installed)