Clarence D. wrote:
I wanted to work on a project that would allow a user typing in text to put
in a unicode value and have the program replace that value with the actual
unicode character. Can anybody help me out on a starting point? Useful apis
etc.... TIA
I'm 99% sure that Palm OS doesn't have any built-in support for unicode.
Characters are 8 bits. On devices where English is the language, I
believe the Palm character set closely corresponds with ISO-8859-1,
though not exactly.
If you want to do Unicode, unless there's some sort of third-party
toolkit, you're going to have to make your own font format and your
own font in that format (unless you use some existing format), your
own routines to draw stuff in the font, and your own equivalent to
any and all UI objects you want to use that use text (such as fields
and labels).
Hmm, I just looked, and here's an SDK that seems to support Unicode:
http://twinypalm.com/ufont.php
There might be another.
I guess some of the people who work on Bible applications, document
readers, etc. could probably offer more insight...
- Logan
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