The rules and story windows now function correctly. And the drawing looks better too. I've also got the Localizable.strings files fixed. The method is this:
iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8 Localizable.strings > temp.strings
and then from there you can use cvtenc to get the file into ascii encoding with unicode escape sequences.
cvtenv -EscapeOut YES temp.strings > Localizable.strings
I used utf-8 because that is my system default, and it should be a lossless conversion to go from utf-16 to utf-8. cvtenc by default converts from your system's default encoding to ascii, and back. There is an -Encoding switch for cvtenc that lets you use a different encoding. running cvtenc like so:
cvtenc -Encoding UTF-16 -EscapeOut YES Localizable.strings > temp.strings
should fix it in one step, but on my system this wouldn't work. I'm not sure what the problem was.
So, now there is Japanese. But only dialogs. The gorm file, rules.txt, and story.txt would all need to be translated for it to be complete. I may know someone who would be willing to do this. I'd have to check first.
If there is no desire to keep StepBill in sync with MacBill, the nib files, MacBill.plist, MacBill.icns, and InfoPlist.strings files could probably be removed. Some of those files are listed in the GNUmakefile, and would have to be deleted from there as well.
Rob