At 11:07pm -0800 99-11-11, Palm Developers Forum List wrote:
>Date: 11 Nov 1999 09:41:50 -0800
>From: "Steve Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: internationalization for palm apps
>
>Where is a good place to find out basic information about making palm apps
>that can be quickly translated to other (wide character) langauges?
There were two (or more?) sessions at PalmSource on this topic, so
you should get the session CD.
Also take a look at the Text Manager API, since you'll potentially
have to use those routines to work with multi-byte character sets
such as Japanese (Shift JIS).
Other than that, just follow the standard rules for putting
everything that might need to be localized into a resource, versus
embedding it in your code (especially text strings).
>Also, does palm OS ship in different languages (ie is there a Kanji palm OS,
>an Arabic palm OS, etc)?
Currently there are only two character encodings available on devices
from Palm - Latin (for English, French, German, etc) and ShiftJIS for
Japanese.
There are a number of 3rd party solutions for languages that require
other character encodings, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hebrew,
Korean, etc. Check out one of the many Palm software sites for
downloadable versions.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200 (direct) +1 408-261-7550 (main)
