In article <92972@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > Dear All, > > Does anyone aware of PalmOS 5 doesn't support SysSetTrapAddress? This means > all Hacks will not work anymore. > > This is a very big issue which makes PalmOS 5 fails. Palm will lost the > global market just because of it. > > This means all external language systems cannot be supported anymore. You > cannot install Greek, Chinese, Korean or any other language systems on any > PalmOS 5. You must buy native PalmOS 5 machines of that language. Does Palm > have localized machines for Hebrew or Russian? > > As a Chinese user myself, I would like to select my machine model like Sony > Clie and use external Chinese language systems. Palm OS 5 doesn't support > Hacks which means this cannot be done. > > Does Palm itself have all kinds of languages for all model lines? Or > PalmSource would like each licensee support 50 languages out-of-the-box? I > also find PalmOS 5 removed IntlSetRoutineAddress which means there is > totally no ways for any external language systems. > > I'm so disappointed to find this fact. Many people are very excited to talk > about PalmOS 5 features but nobody is talking about no more system > extensions. Hope PalmSource aware this issue and fix it as soon as possible > before too late. I don't hope to see another story of WordPerfect.
Have you looked in the Palm OS 5 documentation? There is an extensive PDF file on using and developing Front-End Processors, which are alternate text input systems for supporting non-Latin languages. The Japanese support that Palm OS has had since OS 3.1 was developed using this system, and it works through documented system calls and 68K shared libraries. This system is still supported in Palm OS 5, so if you develop a FEP-based input method for a language like Greek or Russian, it will continue to work on new devices. That handles input. Developing a locale gets you the rest of the way, since it enables language overlays; there's currently no public information on supplying an alternate locale for a device, including how you hook in alternate fonts. -- Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
