Always getting AppleScript Error...

[cygma]

Any files that are said to be convertabile,
any presets, any settings will lead me to

AppleScript Error
Cant't get text item 2 of "/somewhere/whatevername.***".
(-1728)

I have tried, files from a small 1.4 MB (avi) to a large
7.1 GB (Video_TS folder) but whichever size, whichever
type, it doesn't matter when I click the "Encode" button,
this message appears.

I have read
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/videots_divx.html
and did exactly what was told, but still have the same
error.

I have tried several older versions after
completely deleting the current 0.0.9 and its
engines and the plist and the installer plist,
but nothing seems to be changed.

I am pretty confident that the installation of the
mpeg2enc, mencoder, mplayer
was correctly done. And when trying out the
older version, I am pretty confident that all the
related files were properly deleted.

Please tell me what the problem is.

[major]

You're probably using a system with japanese encoding. Set text encoding to English in the International system preferences.

[cygma]

No wonder it worked well on the Panther beta seed
and not on the regular 10.2, because panther didn't have
a Japanese Language set.

Thanks major!!

P.S. Am I the only Japanese using this software?