Asian text support in LSL

Much to my surprise, I've discovered that LSL won't support the display or formatting of Asian languages. I would desperately like to forward events through e-mail in Asian languages, but this seems impossible as the end product is simply a series of question marks rather than the original text.

Is there any support for displaying Asian text in LSL? If not...any way to get around the issue?

Notecards, group names, dont support asian character, only normal chat ~.~, quite limiting there.

you need ms unicode installed to see them in chat, or youll get ****************

Chat's fine...it's the other elements that I'm looking for. any idea if this support will be added?

Hey Percy chan,

A Japanese Linden promised me the new localised client will support displaying Japanese in many more ways like in notecards, which would (or should) mean it would support other two-byte characters.

When is the client coming out then, you ask? I have no idea.

Howdy Chie-chan!

Since double-byte characters work in the client but not in LSL/notecards/etc, then I highly suspect that this is a database issue, since this is where these items are stored. Enabling double-byte on the database must be a risky proposition (or time-consuming, meaning lots of down time) for Linden, otherwise they would have implemented it already.

That's the only reason that I can think of since the client can handle double-byte already.