A method is provided for transmission and reception, by an object carousel, of an object including data and a message to reference the data. The method includes inserting into the message information regarding an encoding system used to encode character strings within the message; transmitting the data and the message by the object carousel; receiving the data and the message; determining the information from the message; and decoding the character strings within the message according to the information, wherein the message is a broadcast inter ORB protocol (BIOP) message.