$ Expansion and Japanese Characters

[#1]

So I've got a spreadsheet with some fields containing japanese. I'd like to convert these to english.

The display of the Japanese characters in the QV application is working fine, however when I try to use the field data in a $ expansion, the characters are converted to ASCII ???? characters, not the original japanese characters.

Here is my example call to the google translate api:

//get a google api key @ http://code.google.com/apis/console

LET vGoogleAppsKey = 'pasteGoogleKeyHere';

LET vJapaneseText = '? ? ? ?';


LOAD
'$(vJapaneseText)' as JapaneseText
,@1:n as EnglishTranslated
FROM
[https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=$(vGoogleAppsKey)&q=$(vJapaneseText)&source=ja&target=en]
(fix)
;

Here is the log output:
12/28/2010 1:46:03 PM: 0019 LOAD
12/28/2010 1:46:03 PM: 0020 '? ? ? ?' as JapaneseText
12/28/2010 1:46:03 PM: 0021 ,@1:n as EnglishTranslated
12/28/2010 1:46:03 PM: 0022 FROM
12/28/2010 1:46:03 PM: 0023 [https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=keyGoesHere...&q=? ? ? ?&source=ja&target=en]
12/28/2010 1:46:03 PM: 0024 (fix)

[#2 · Accepted solution]

I figured out that I needed to use the applycodepage() function to get the japanese characters to show up.

Something like applycodepage( $(vJapaneseText),932) got it to work!