Chinese Charakter on my Palm Desktop

[3x13]

Hello,

I've bought a Palm T|X with english OS and activated CJKOS. Works fine, I've created a lot of Entries (Calendar, Adresses) in chinese.

But: If I hotsync the entries to Palm Desktop (Win2k), I only see strange signs like "±¦À¶". I've installed chinese charakter support to windows, so I can read and write chinese. Works fine, but not with the Palm Desktop.

Any Ideas?

 

[marchey]

It think it is the encoding. On the PC it is UTF-8 on the Palm probably GB. I have the same problem over here, or rather the reverse. When I copy/past text in chinese into memo (PC-side) and then synchronise with the Palm is is unreadable on my palm. I have to convert first. I use DimSum for this. So my procedure is:

1. Starting from a text e.g. somewhere on a website.

2. I copy+past this into DimSum

3. Change the encoding

4. Copy+Paste into memo (the text is unreadable now looks like this: Õ⼸Ìì²î²»¶àÿÌ

5. Synchronise

It is ok now...

I would like to have a better solution for this problem...

 

[Jim]

Most likely you can solve the problem by opening Control Panel then Regional and Language Options, click on the advanced tab then set the language for non-unicode programs to whichever Chinese version you prefer.

If this doesn't solve it post here again and someone brighter than I can probably help you out.

 

[3x13]

Thanks for the answers.

I would prefer a no-copy-transform-paste solution.

In my "Advanced Language Options" is every option containing "Chinese" checked (was already checked). I tried now to switch CJKOS to BIG5 (displaying GB to see the modern Chinese) but the problem is still the same.

I never tried synchronising docs before, so I now installed the docs-to-go desktop-tool, that seems to be worse, because worddocs, created in chinese on my palm, are broken after a hotsync *as well on the palm as on my desktop*. :-(

Same with my (exported) Pleco-flashcards.

Any more ideas?

 

[Jim]

Are you using Windows XP? Above the Code Page Conversion Tables where you check off the various languages there should be a drop down menu for selecting the Language for non-Unicode programs. This is where you need to select Chinese (PRC) or Chinese (Taiwan).

 

[3x13]

Hey Jim,

no, I'm using Windows 2000 Professional. Can't switch to XP, my Laptop is too old for that.