Version: 0.5.1 (using KDE KDE 3.0.99) Installed from: Unspecified Japanese text gets mangled by the game. Both Atlantik and monopd should use UTF8 or some similar means of communicating text from any language.
Oh.. I forgot to mention, to run this test I ran Atlantik using a Japanese locale, the one I use to manipulate Japanese text with KDE apps regularly. So this is an Atlantik-specific problem.
Fixed in CVS (for Atlantik 0.5.2 / KDE 3.1) and in HEAD (0.6.0) with your own patch. :-)