FWIW, the Japanese translation of Grouper is available at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mcdan/GrouperJP.zip
It was translated with GCC and PilRC and looks great on a J-OS
ROM. (I wouldn't try loading it on a non-Japanese ROM, though.)
Whenever I get some free time I'll try to post the details to
pilot.programmer.gcc.
Regards,
Daniel.
p.s. Thanks, esp. Vivek, for the help you all provided me with.
Pres Nevins wrote:
>
> I've got a Japanese WorkPad, and it comes with its own Japanese version of
> the Desktop software of course, but I'm not really sure whether you need a
> Japanese OS to run it. You'd need some method of displaying Japanese text at
> the least though, or all the menus'd be gobbledygook (sp!).
>
> Actually I installed it on my Japanese Virtual PC but never launched Palm
> Desktop (I just wanted to get my hands on the J-E/E-J dictionary .pdb files
> that came with it).. I don't have an English Windows HD image so I can't
> test how it'd sync with that.
>
> As far as my experience: I'm running on a Mac, and since they don't even
> offer a Japanese MacPac, I'm using the latest English version of Palm
> Desktop/Mac from the web. To get it to run with Japanese however, you do
> need to patch each of the default conduits so they don't mangle the Japanese
> text on the way through, and you also need to the patch Palm Desktop
> application so that it can display the Japanese text correctly.. I would
> venture that the Windows side might need similar patches?
>
> This patch is a 3rd party freeware patch, BTW -- nothing official, but it
> works.
>
> Before I got the WP/J, I was running J-OS III on a PIII, and we needed the
> same patch for the desktop software. So I figure it's not a Japanese ROM
> thing, just whether or not you have Japanese text on-board your handheld.
>
> Up until the release of the WP/J, there was no Palm OS device officially
> sold in Japan at all, so everybody had to deal with this issue, no matter
> their platform. I'd assume that everybody who bought the WP/J and uses
> Windows would be using the official Japanese desktop software that comes
> with it, so I don't know if anyone will have tested a hotsync with English
> software/OS. The Pilot Users Group of Osaka meets on the 17th though, I
> could ask the Windows users there, then.
>
> --
> Pres Nevins
> Nishinomiya, Japan!
> http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~preston
