What you are looking for is called Unicode. It is a 16 bit character set that
tries to pull in all of the major world alphabets into one group. Unicode
characters are known as "wide characters" in the Windows world and all of the high
level coding (i.e. CString, COM interfaces, VB) stores in Unicode. I have no idea
what Palm's Unicode policy is but I wouldn't mind finding out.
In the meantime, one fix I have seen some text being a graphic image of the text
characters in the language you are supporting. Not very elegant, but it works.
Steve
"Gordon W. Gifford, Jr." wrote:
> Eric
> I have recently worked with a group that internationalized their products.
> The jest of the problem is that Oriental alphabets have so many characters
> (>256) that they cannot be encoded in 8 bits. There is an acronym for 16 or
> more bit encoding, but it escapes me right now. I believe this one is a
> Microsoft standard. You may want to research MS and Apple for the term
> "localization". I have seen this to be a serious problem for programmers
> using languages that are bias to Western alphabets.
>
> Gordon
>
> P.S. I hope everyone will excuse me if this is redundant. Perhaps I should
> read these 230 emails from the most recent, to the oldest?
>
> Eric wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> > I try to write a Chinese plug in for PalmOS, so that Palm can
> > display Chinese. Each Chinese character is composed by 2 super characters.
> > can any good guy tell me what's the key things tp concern ?
> >
> > E r i c
> >
> > Electrical and Electronic Engineering
> > The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
> > URL: http://home.ust.hk/~ee_slm
