>I actually using VB to design a conduit to download palm data. The database
>on the palm containing chinese characters.
>
>After the synchronisation from handheld to desktop. i could not see the
>chinese characters anymore. It shows all the funny characters, even i on the
>chinese star application. I would like to know which command that i can use
>to convert the palm data for chinese characters. The command that i use for
>converting palm data to readable format as below. I think it does not work
>on chinese characters.
>
> pDataUtil.AllBytesToBSTR pDataRecHdr.vData, 0, Asc("|"), pText
This sounds more like a VB question than a Palm OS question. The
character encoding used by Acer's products (and also Chinese hacks
for Palm OS) is GB2312 (Simplified) or Big-5 (Traditional), which
should match what the desktop is expecting.
-- Ken
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Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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