[missing-sync-palmos-talk] cyrillic support

[Eugene Bobin]

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.
well, but PiLoc (cyrillic localisation system for palms) supports 4
cyrillic encodings on palm. Of course almost all users use ms1251
encoding. So or your developers should assume that there's always cp1251
on palm if it'll says that language is russian, or let user to do
> 
> 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.
It means, that someday we'll have normal native language support with
palm on macs? ;-)


> 
>>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).
Yeah, right. But our world not so straight and beautyful as should ;-)
I think that it would be better to have option to let user choose which
encoding on his/her device. This option can be hidden (as
command+option+shift+D dialog), for not messing with all this
charset/encoding stuff average user of missing sync.

> 
> 
>>>>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 ;-)
OK ;-)


Best regards,
-- 
Eugene Bobin