Re: Can I add the charset parameter to the pilot device configuration?

["lsla post cz" <lsla post cz>]

>  	We follow the Palm SDK pretty closely.. and it defines:
> 
> #define encodingNameAscii       "us-ascii"
> #define encodingNameISO8859_1   "ISO-8859-1"
> #define encodingNameCP1252      "Windows-1252"
> #define encodingNameShiftJIS    "Shift_JIS"
> #define encodingNameCP932       "Windows-31J"
> #define encodingNameUTF8        "UTF-8"
> #define encodingNameUCS2        "ISO-10646-UCS-2"
> #define encodingNamePalmGSM     "palmGSM"
> #define encodingNameBig5        "Big5"
> #define encodingNameBig5_HKSCS  "Big5-HKSCS"
> #define encodingNameGB2312      "GB2312"
> #define encodingNameHZ          "HZ-GB-2312"
> 
>  	Any other charset is out of scope, including CP1250. If we add 

Unfortunately, your list does not include the 8-bit charsets used in
this country (Czech Republic). We use either CP1250 or ISO-8859-2. 

The CP1250 support in my Palm IIIx is provided by the "GNU-Czech"
software from redgrep CZ http://www.redgrep.cz/GNU-czech/ .

I use the software for few years without any problems.


> some inclusions to handle $PILOTCHARSET, we have to make sure it meets 
> one of those specified to be output by the Palm itself.

Why ? Probably, there are tons of third-party NLS software for  
languages not listed here.

>  I suspect the 
> problem Ladislav is having is elsewhere.

Maybe, but I solved both my problems by 

1) changing #define PILOT_CHARSET  from CP1252 to CP1250

2) recompiling pilot-link

3) restarting pilot-daemon

Ladislav Sladecek


>  I'd still be interested in 
> his patch, however. Make sure your patch is against current CVS HEAD, 
> not 0.11.8 though.
> 
> 
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod gnu-designs com
> http://gnu-designs.com
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