Help on compiling with Japanese Text

[Alan Ong]

Hello,
   I am trying to compile my code with hard-coded Japanese Kanji and
full-width katakana string text but the compiler view some of the text
as escape characters.
   An example would be the full-width Katakana "so" = ソ which is
viewed as \201. Is there a compiler option to view Japanese text
correctly? I check the --help options but there are none. Any
suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you.