Someone wrote a little app that displays
the user ID as a series of hex codes. If you
can't find it, you can probably write one fairly
quickly. You could rewrite your unlock code
generating progam to use the hex codes instead
of ASCII as input.
The use of hex codes also removes ambiguity when
a user has two spaces between first & last name
instead of one, etc.
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-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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> I'm sure other developers must have encountered this problem
> before. My shareware program is activated by a 4-digit code
> which is based on the ascii values of the user's HotSync id.
> Things have worked well so far but now Japanese users are
> starting to register and I am unable to make a registration
> code if their HotSync ID is using Japanese characters.
> There's both the problem of generating the code and of course
> them telling me what their id is (without the mail system
> generating garbage characters).
>
> Is there an easy solution or do I have to make a
> registration-free version for the japanese market?
>
