anyone know how to display japanese text on the US version?

[aoijun]

I have installed KDIC on my NX along with a japanese dictionary file, however it will not display the japanese text (It replaces it with wingdings) I have tried various programs that work for earlier versions of the palm OS, however they did nothing on mine. I tried posting this under the aps forum but no one was able to provide a program that worked. If anyone knows a way to display this text I'd really appreciate it (preferably freeware...I'm a starving californian Community College student :( )

[sebring]

www.ZZTechs.com has an app that may do what you want, but I don't know if it is free or not. I don't have a need for it.

[aoijun]

It crashed my palm and i had to hard reset it:eek: not cool at all:( any other suggestions:confused:

[sebring]

OOPS, sorry.:(

[clie_wannabe]

try j-os (as far as i remember it is already in version 5)

[SprSaiyan8]

i think you can fund some at Tucows it a PDA freeware & shareware Site
http://pda.tucows.com/

[Wallabee]

I suggest you try Dokusha http://www.geocities.com/andrew_brault/dokusha/

It's free standalone application, and it will allow you to read japanese text on your handheld, using it's built-in fonts (no system modification needed), and include some good dictionnaries: Kanji, English/Japanese, Places & Names.
Another nice feature is that it allows in-context lookup of words in the dictionnary while reading text.

Works fine on NX, there's only a concern about it's size (complete: 10MB, without Places & names: 5MB, no VFS support, but can be launched from powerrun).

The other solution is some system hack like cjkos (http://www.dyts.com/en/), that will allow to display japanese from any application, but takes a lot of space and is a commercial stuff (although not that expensive).

If all you want are dictionnaries or text reading solutions, i think you'd better use a software that uses it's own method for displaying japanese.
If you want to use japanese from any applications, like memo, address book..., then cjkos may be appropriated, though I would prefer to get a japanese device for this case ^ ^

[birick]

As some have already found out, don't load CJKOS on the NX...it leads to a hard crash.

[clie_wannabe]

yeah... i use a japanese nx

[jbray]

We are all waiting for the latest version of JackSprat, I have a Japanese version NX that I want to change to English. Just a waiting game now