Hi Adrian,

>My question has nothing to do with Symbol devices.  I'm referring
>to the character set used by the PalmOS (single byte only; I'll
>face dealing with double-byte character sets later).  For
>most character sets the lower 128 values are consistent but
>the upper 128 values vary so that trying to send the code
>for, say, the 'e' with little dots on top doesn't render as
>that on what I'm sending the codes to.  I need to know what
>character set to either a) convert the Palm's character set
>to, or preferably b) set the external device up to load up
>the same character set as the Palm is sending.

Palm's Latin character set is roughly equivalent to Windows code page 
1252. There are a few minor differences - Windows has defined two new 
characters in the high ASCII range that are not yet part of Palm's 
character set, and Palm adds some display-only glyphs in the control 
range. In either case if you're sending characters from a Palm device 
that uses the PalmLatin encoding, you can treat all of the data as 
CP1252. If you look in CharLatin.h, you'll see the definitions of all 
code points which are specific to the Latin encoding.

-- Ken

Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200

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