Wgnuplot shows tooltip text when mouse cursor is on the icon. These texts is defined at [Button] lines in wgnuplot-ja.mnu for japanese environment. Wgnuplot-ja.mnu also defines menu texts. But, tooltip texts are broken, though menu texts are displayed correctly. Currently the file wgnuplot-ja.mnu is UTF-8 encoding.
The reason of the problem may be the code in src/win/wmenu.c:
#ifdef UNICODE
button.iString = (UINT_PTR)UnicodeText(ButtonText[i], S_ENC_DEFAULT);
#else
In Japanese environment, S_ENC_DEFAULT = CP932 (Shift_JIS), then it may translate from CP932 to Unicode incorrectly. In fact, tooltip text displayed correctly when I modified S_ENC_DEFAULT to S_ENC_UTF8.
Menu texts may be treated as UTF-8 by
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, buf, MAXSTR, wbuf, MAXSTR);
in src/win/wmenu.c, so I think ButtonText[] should also be treated as UTF8 by changing S_ENC_DEFAULT to S_ENC_UTF8.