You could also check how they cut text in other games, for example, check http://www.geocities.com/moon_jihad/tokimemo.html

If you have further questions, you should sit down with the translators and ask away, or you could email me.

Good luck!

MoonJihad''s page should be excellent material to get you started.

But, there are nasty exceptions in Japanese that you should be aware of. The "ten"(comma), "maru"(period), and "kakko"(quotation marks) are treated like their english counterparts. So, if one line of text can show 20 characters, and your 21st character happens to be a period, the period must be shown on that line. It can not be carried over to the next line. Same goes for the comma and the closing quotation mark.

Therefore, you will need to either write a routine that catches these special characters, or make sure such a thing does not happen by playing with the translated text.

Finally, the exclamation and question marks do NOT exist in Japanese. These two are imported punctuations and definately not part of the official language. But, it is common to see these characters used in every day conversations and games, so this should not be too much of a concern.

If you need more help on the subject, I''ll be more than happy to help out.