1src Forums - Palm Encoding Setup

Joel

01-28-2005, 03:02 PM

Synchronize your Palm and Mac with full support for national characters!

Do you write on the Mac and the Palm in your language and need your data to be transferred correctly? Does your Palm display "String is unprintable" instead of important information? Would you like to read text from your Mac on your Palm? [details (http://www.1src.com/?m=show&id=800)]

asiayeah

01-29-2005, 04:14 AM

It was really a headache for me to transfer Chinese (in Big5) encodings between my Tungsten T3 and Mac OS X via the Hotsync Manager. I haven't tried this solution, but I have been able to do so by using a patch. That patch makes some changes to the Hotsync conduits of my Palm Desktop and does the job. I've got a patch from a friend, so I don't have a web link to it.

Up to now, I still don't understand why they don't fix this encoding problems when the device comes out of the box!

loyukfai

01-29-2005, 12:10 PM

I'm still waiting PalmSource to switch to Unicode for all its internal textual storage, to solve much of the encoding problems.

Just hope that day will come before PalmSource goes bankrupt. @_@

asiayeah

01-29-2005, 09:04 PM

I'm still waiting PalmSource to switch to Unicode for all its internal textual storage, to solve much of the encoding problems.

Just hope that day will come before PalmSource goes bankrupt. @_@

As far as I know, even the newest Palm OS Cobalt has no support for Unicode yet. I don't think it would happen soon.