Japanese characters in display dialog buttons

Question

I would like to have Japanese characters on the face of display dialog buttons. Is this possible, and if so would someone suggest a method for doing so. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Simple really, let say you like to have two buttons あい and いあ .
You need to make two text files, one for each button with the above content (they need to be Unicode text file).
Call them test1.txt and test2.txt, put them on your desktop.
then try this:
-- begin
tell application "Finder" to set home_desktop to desktop as string
set _test1 to read file (home_desktop & "test1.txt") as Unicode text
set _test2 to read file (home_desktop & "test2.txt") as Unicode text
display dialog "test" buttons {_test1, _test2}
-- end
To have everything in self-contain script, you have to save the script as application bundle, add the text files to the bundle and refer to their correct path within the bundle.