This has gone without much ado as long as the text is part of a name (or internal name).  But it does become a stink if international characters are used for file references (figureResFile and so on).  I haven't yet been able to determine what format Poser uses to store the names - say something like this (which happens to be a name not a file reference): ƒtƒBƒMƒ…ƒA

Since there are quite a few possibilties here (EBCDIC, ASCII-ANSI, Unicode: UTF-8 and UTF-16, and variations anon) it is difficult to ascertain the format being employed.  My feeling is that this is a two-byte representation which will limit the choices to Unicode UTF-16.  This seems to be verified in Sci UniPad entering the two character hexadecimals (U+).  In this case, the result is kanji as expected from a Japanese source.

Any verification?

Thanks!
Robert

stewer mentions in this post -> http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=2868513&ebot_calc_page#message_2868513
that Poser 7 is using UTF-8 with no BOM for PZ3's.
Hopefully this is the same for all files.

Okay.  This appears to be the case for this Poser 5 file as well (there is no BOM).  But then he mentions troubles between Windows and Mac, Japanese Kana/Kanji in previous versions.  This seems to implicate that earlier versions used a variety of formats - but I see possible UTF-16 (but this could be S-JIS or some other encoding - getting lucky?).  This will make it difficult to cover a variety of situations where non-ASCII characters are in use...

Let me know if you bump into anything else.
Thanks,
Robert