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Originally Posted by TougaKiryuu  yes it does. |
Not if they're not included in the font files in your theme's directory. Stepmania does not contain that many kanji, almost every time I put in a Japanese name it is unable to display it and has to revert to the romanisation because it can't find one or more of the characters.
With VJAMix we were able to supply the additional kanji as part of the theme, but for single files you'd need to provide them with an image to put in their Fonts folder and instructions on how to edit the ini file there.
For example, here is the file containing the 24px versions of the additional characters used in VJAMix:
In order for them to display correctly, it was necessary to take that picture, as well as a 16px one, copy them into the theme's "Fonts" directory, and then add this to the ini file there (both the 16px and 24px ini files):
[VJAMix HS]
line 0=前何冥浄化青奏南
line 1=打消∞⇒叉炸裂電
line 2=澤
That's the entire process you need to use to add kanji to Stepmania if it doesn't support the ones you already want to use in your file. Obviously, this is a complicated process for the end user and one that you generally can't expect them to do, so if your song or artist name contains an unsupported kanji then you usually can't do much about it other than ask Stepmania's devs to add the kanji into the next version.
Another way to solve the problem is to use a theme which has all the kanji installed (as mentioned above) but then you are requiring all your end users to use that theme as well, and they won't. Also, there is probably a reason Stepmania does not have all the kanji installed to begin with, I think for memory reasons or something.
That's how it works, anyway. Editing the SM file with your IME, editing Translations.dat, neither of those will solve the problem of Stepmania simply not having the kanji ready to display. Translations.dat in particular is completely redundant if you're able to simply edit your SM file itself, so I wouldn't bother (as all it does is replace one thing for another). If Stepmania does not support the kanji themselves (you'll see this if you open it in the editor and the title includes a "?" in it where kanji should be) then there's nothing you can do about it other than the above solution which is impractical. It's one of the weaknesses of Stepmania, I guess.