Hello, I had the proper fix for about 3 years for SonicStage to properly display Japanese characters. I had gone into the registry and changed the values and used Applocale and had East Asian support installed. Up until recently it all worked, now it doesn't. I updated SonicStage to version 4.3 to see if that would help and it didn't. I am running the US version of SonicStage 4.3. I checked multiple times to see if I missed something after the install, but I followed the directions posted on this forum and it still doesn't work. Please help because I really don't know what's going on; all the values in the registry are correct and I am running it through applocale. Another odd detail is that since SonicStage has stopped working my backslash is a Yen symbol in certain instances and not in others. Is this something else entirely? Thanks for your time. Regards