Thank you.

> I'm guessing that the strings you're referring to are being displayed
> in a dialog by POSE -

No, the text was drawn to the screen using WinPaintChars.

Jan Slodicka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Krugler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: Japanese


> >Could you please explain what do you mean by Japanese support installed?
> >
> >Acc. to my own experience Japanese emulator is not enough. Once I got
> >screenshots from our app taken on some Japanese Clie emulator by a
Japanese
> >user. I was not able to display the same strings as he saw (I got just
some
> >junk characters) despite using the same prc, the same emulator, the same
> >rom - the only difference was that I used English Windows. My conclusion
was
> >that the emulator probably relies on some Windows services (maybe fonts)
> >that are available on Japanese systems only. I suppose that you refer to
the
> >same thing.
>
> I'm guessing that the strings you're referring to are being displayed
> in a dialog by POSE - for example, if it's a fatal alert that POSE
> has intercepted. In that case, yes, the OS needs to have Japanese
> support installed.
>
> What this means varies by platform/version. In Mac OS 9 and earlier,
> you had to install the appropriate language kit. In Mac OS X, you
> have the option of installing the required fonts when you install the
> OS - it's not a separate product/package. On Windows 2000/XP I
> believe you only need to have an appropriate Japanese font installed,
> but I haven't had to do much configuration here - it's just worked
> for me in the past.
>
> One final note is that POSE has to do some special processing to pick
> the correct font to use when displaying text that comes from the ROM.
> It could be that this is broken in the Clie emulator.
>
> -- Ken
> --
> Ken Krugler
> TransPac Software, Inc.
> <http://www.transpac.com>
> +1 530-470-9200
>
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