If anyone along their travels has figured out how XI handles foreign text, please let me know

I've read single characters off the chat log and broken them down into byte arrays, and seen some interesting results.

The Japanese Hiragana "aa" is the bytes [160,130]. However, the same syllablary in Windows is different bytes when encoded in UTF-7, UTF-8, and UTF-16.

Am I missing something completely, or does XI have it's own character set?
UTF-8 would certainly make the most sense, since it's fact that the standard Ansi text is stored in arrays of single byte characters.

This is all I could find so far ; ;

http://lfw.org/text/jp.html

While I haven't figured out what this means for me, it's probably what i needed to see. Thanks honky.

Figures... I neglected to consider that FFXI was coded in Japan, and it would make sense that they'd use a `Japanese International Standard` to encode their bit streams.

That's it, Honkey. FFXI uses the Shift-JIS transmission format. Thanks again for making me think outside the box.