At 12:00am -0800 01-02-22, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: text manager
>From: Chad Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:26:38 -0500
>X-Message-Number: 27
>
>
>So, I am confused about the text manager. Each PalmOS device supports
>its localized character encoding. But how do you force a PalmOS
>device which supports a certain character encoding to use another??
You can't, unless you install hacks or a new locale module (4.0
only). On any given device, only a single character set encoding is
active.
>Specifically, I use this function to grab text out of a record, and
>put it into a field
>
>If I dig into the pdb file, the record seems to have the correct
>character. But, when it displays in the filed, it does not.
If the character set used for the data in the PDB matches that of the
device, then I'd think that you've got a bug someplace else in your
code. The snippet that you included in your post seems correct.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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