[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Missing Sync for Palm OS 4.0.1 beta 5 now available

[Eugene Bobin]

Scott Gruby ?????:
> 
> On Sep 8, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Eugene Bobin wrote:
> 
>> Scott Gruby ?????:
>>
>>> Mark/Space, Inc. is pleased to announce The Missing Sync for Palm OS 
>>> 4.0.1 beta 5. This version is being made available to registered 
>>> users for testing various fixes. Please note that since this is a 
>>> beta version, it has not been fully tested. We recommend you backup 
>>> your data prior to installing. If you have issues with this version, 
>>> you may have to revert to the shipping version.
>>> The beta version can be downloaded from: 
>>> <http://www.markspace.com/testing/>
>>> version 4.0.1 b5
>>> version 4.0.1b4  (never released)
>>> version 4.0.1 b3 (never released)
>>
>> lots of fixes, but there's no anything about cyrillic support...
>>
>> Can I ever hope to sync my palm in windows cp-1251 encoding with 
>> AddressBook & iCal?
>>
>> In Russia there's 3 localisation systems for palms,
>> PiLoc, PaPiRus & CyrHack. I'm not sure that all of them will correctly 
>> return that Palm uses Russian language at sync.
>> And besides, each of these systems let user to use one of four 
>> cyrillic encodings.
>> So I beg you, to let user decide which encoding in use on his/her Palm.
>>
> 
> The iCal/Address Book conduit (iSync) is out of our control. You will 
> need to contact Apple to suggest this as an enhancement to their 
> conduits. Even if we let users decide what encoding to use, it wouldn't 
> affect conduits such as Address Book and iCal. We only have control over 
> the MemoPad conduit.

well, as I understand there's 3 ways for it:

1. Contact Apple for fixes of iSync Conduit.
2. Make Missing Sync's iSync conduit, as you did for pocket pc devices.
3. Make hack in hotsync manager, which will smart recode byte stream
between iSync conduit and palm device (reading/writing addresses,todos
and datebook databases)

I think that second way is the right way, since when new cobalt devices
will be available I don't think that Apple will release new iSync
conduit in reasonable time.

Also, there's still need for cyrillic in Memo conduit anyway.

Best regards,
-- 
Eugene Bobin