[missing-sync-palmos-talk] cyrillic support

[Brian Hall]

>well, in Missing Sync I've choose Window -> Sync Log. And there's NO
>such lines.
>May be because I've enabled only Memo conduit? Also I've checked 'Show
>more details in log' in preferences.
>
>Where can I find log file in Finder/Terminal?

One of our engineers tested out the package that adds Cyrillic. When you do
a hotsync, the device reports that it is English.

The developer of that package needs to add an option to also patch the OS
such that during a hotsync the correct language code for Cyrillic is
returned. Then Missing Sync would detect that and it would work properly.

The Missing Sync product manager will be contacting the developers of the
Cyrillic, Chinese and Hebrew add-ons to request that they update their
software to properly report the language when doing a hotsync.

>But I successfully sync'ed with Linux/Solaris using jpilot program, In
>this program
>I can specify encoding rules. In russian palms common to use microsoft
>cp1251 encoding
>in Unix'es -- koi8-r so obvious that there's need for recoding.

This is why it worked - you were able to over-ride the default language
setting. We do not provide such a setting (nor do we intend to - see above
- we believe if someone patches the OS to change it to another language,
they should also patch the portion that reports the language in use during
hotsync).

>>
>>> Also I've found that MemoPad application from Missing Sync incorrectly
>>> displays first letter in each line of memo.
>>
>> Is this all the time? Or just when using non-Roman text in the memo?
>well, I did some tests. In MS 4.0 (v15) all capital cyrillic letters
>was replaced with
>some symbols, as well as lower case cyrillic yo and ya.

Correct - you won't be able to sync Cyrillic with your setup.

>Btw, I'd like to translate Missing Sync to Russian, how could I do it
>properly?

To make your own un-official translation, I think you'd just open the NIB
file with Interface Builder. This is one of those things where if you have
to ask, you probably shouldn't be messing with it ;-)

Brian

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