I am trying to determine how easy it is to support languages other
then English on the Palm Device. I wanna know what is involved into
displaying none - Latin script on the Palm. I've being looking all over the
place for
few days, but so far I only manage to confuse myself. I hope someone
can help me steer into the right direction.
1) Does anyone know if Palms sold outside US have a localized version
of Palm OS that supports local language? If yes what localized
versions are available?
2) From development documents it appears that Palm support multi-byte
encodings, but does Palm OS supports Unicode? Is there Unicode font
for palm? Is there any way to input unicode characters into Palm?
3) TextManager datastructure CharEncodingType has constant for
charEncodingUTF8, is there any Palm devices
that actually use Unicode encoding?
4) Maybe someone can clarify following statement from the Palm OS Companion:
A given Palm OS device supports one language and one character
encoding to represent the character encoding to represent the
characters required by that language. Although Palm OS supports
multiple
character encodings, a give device uses only one of those encodings
So how do then 3d party packages like PiLoc or j-os allow to mix multiple
languages on the same device.
I hope someone can put me out of this misery:-)
*;O)
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