How do I fix mojibake on Japanese PC program running with Winebottler on OS X?

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How do I fix mojibake on Japanese PC program running with Winebottler on OS X?

I'm trying to run a PC game on a 27" iMac running OS X Mavericks. I have successfully created a .app package using Winebottler, and the program seems to run just fine. However, since the game was intended for Windows computers with the system language set to Japanese, all dialog boxes appear as mojibake instead of Japanese text. I tried changing my OS sytem language to Japanese, and that didn't affect the app. Is there anything I can do to remedy the situation?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Jun 15, 2014 6:18 PM

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Jun 15, 2014 11:13 PM in response to riolikesyou

Your Mac cannot read a PC game designed for Windows unless you use virutualization software such as VMware orParallels

Or partition the hard drive using Boot Camp.

BootCamp requrires purchasing a Windows installer disc.

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Jun 15, 2014 11:20 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for your reply.

But I'm actually already running the game on my Mac. It appears to work fine with the exception of the mojibake. I considered doing a partition and installing Windows, but I'm afraid that even if I buy Windows 8 and run it with BootCamp, the game will still appear with scrambled text. (It ran scrambled on my previous Windows 7 PC before I upgraded Windows 7 Premium, which could handle Japanese-language programs.)

In other words, it's not the game itself that is the issue; it's the text that appears within the game.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jun 16, 2014 2:37 AM in response to riolikesyou

I think you need to ask about this in some Winebottler forum. I can't imagine anything anything that you can do in OS X itself to fix it. If it ran in Windows OK, it should also run OK in a full Windows install on a Mac, whether bootcamp or virtual.

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riolikesyou Author

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Jun 16, 2014 9:26 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks, Tom! I'll try asking around there.

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