Thanks.  I think the problem seems to have been mostly that I was reading things in in one format (probably ASCII) and writing them out in another (maybe utf-8).  This didn't seem to be a problem until the Japanese characters showed up that the encodings weren't the same.  I think I've got it fixed now, but I still need my Japanese user to try it out and see what happens on his system.

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