Localizing EQ2MAP POI tooltip text difficulties?

[ahtwang]

Seeing that EQ2-East is going to launch some time soon (in fact it is now in the usual not-so-closed Closed Beta phase), I wanted to try localizing the EQ2MAP mod.

I tried editing the individual xml files for each zone and changed a few Tooltip="..." contents into Chinese, then saved as UTF-8 without BOM.

Problem: In-game, the map loads fine, but the Chinese characters come out mostly as empty boxes as if EQ2 can't find the font for it.

The rest of the UI continue to work smoothly with whatever Chinese strings they have. Just those tooltips I changed are garbled.

I'd appreciate any pointers. Or if it is preferred that EQ2MAP don't get localized, please do tell and accept my apologies.