[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Internationalization / Chinese

[Brian Hall]

>I've got a dopod ( http://www.dopod.com ) and hope the syncing features
>will take into account other languages in the target device. I tried
>using PocketMac, it cam sometimes transfer files, but syncing address
>book data is just dead. Possibly becasue it's not listed as supported,
>but also possibly because the expected filenames are in chinese. I just
>hope that's taken into account when you put together this product. I'm
>looking forward to it.

In general, we do that with our products. We may or may not have full
unicode support in the 1.0, but we do a GREAT deal of business in Japan
(with the CLIE version) and that is certainly a market we consider
important and will be addressing post 1.0.

A more interesting thing to examine is do all the iApps fully support
unicode? We know iPhoto and iTunes are OK. We'll have to verify that for
iSync, iCal and Address as well.

FYI: For the CLIE we have versions localized to Japanese, French and German
(and distribution/support in each of those markets - see
http://www.markspace.com/distributors.html. Those are likely the ones we
will do first for any product, all things being equal. We're pragmatic, and
if we would see a return on investment in doing a Chinese localization,
we'd do it. Left to our own, I don't see that happening, but if approached
by a Chinese language device manufacturer, that could make sense.

Brian

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