I am currently struggling with this problem. I want to add Japanese characters to a variable and then display them in a text-box dynamically. At first I when I pasted the characters into the actions panel as a string variable they just showed up as little boxes. I changed the actions panel default font to one of the japanese fonts and then I was able to see the characters in the actions panel. When I run the movie however, the characters do not show up in the text field. Does anyone know how to work with this?