Locale error?

[BLOODnB]

I tried testing the character.txt and readmore.txt files for my UTAU (before recording her) but the characters came out all garbled.
My locale has been set to Japanese for over a decade and UTAU works completely fine otherwise.
Katakana shouldn't be an issue and I've seen the other symbols used for other readmores.
I just have no idea why these files specifically are having issues.
Any ideas on what's going on?

 

[Kiyoteru]

You may have accidentally saved the files as UTF-8 unicode. If you're using notepad, you can save the files as "ANSI" and the japanese characters will force it to use Shift-JIS instead.

 

[BLOODnB]

You may have accidentally saved the files as UTF-8 unicode. If you're using notepad, you can save the files as "ANSI" and the japanese characters will force it to use Shift-JIS instead.

IT WORKED! Thank you so much!!