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Computer representation of character sets is a complex and (to those of us with twisted minds) fascinating topic.  I won’t even attempt to describe it in this guide.  Suffice it to say that there is an alphabet soup of terms and acronyms like ASCII, Extended-ASCII, EBCDIC (anyone else old enough to remember that one?), UTF-8, WCHAR, Unicode, and so on.  The important one for us is “Unicode”.  That’s the computer industry’s current best hope for representing characters in all languages in a consistent way.  And fortunately, WoW speaks Unicode. 

Practically speaking, here’s the one thing you need to know for creating your localized .lua files:  use a Unicode editor to create the file.  Like I said, I don’t speak anything besides English.  (After reading my writing for six installments of this guide, you’re probably wondering if I even speak that! J)  So to create the French translation of the battle cry AddOn, I emailed my localization.lua file to a friend who speaks French.  She translated the strings, using an Unicode editor, and sent them back to me.  Even though I still don’t speak a word of French, my AddOn now does.  Way cool.