Thread:FixSRwiki/@comment-46261745-20200811012110/@comment-31720212-20200811030807

Shift-JIS is the text encoding format used by Alicesoft. Encoding tells the computer how to convert from binary to letters, and there's dozens out there. In English, we've used encodings you're probably more familiar with: ASCII, ANSI, UTF, and of course, the would-be universal encoding, Unicode. Japan's been slow to adopt Unicode, and many people still use the older Shift-JIS encoding (Japanese Industrial Standards) for Japanese text.

Your text editor will normally notice that the file is Shift-JIS, but sometimes it screws up. If you ever open an Alicesoft code file with variables or function names that look like garbage, your text editor is probably trying to read a Shift-JIS file as though it was some English format. If that happens, check online to figure how to change encodings in your editor, and change it to Shift-JIS. The text should pop back into place!

Hopefully FixSRWiki knows about thsi variable you're looking for!