Zire72 and garbled chinese text display

[smeenz]

I downloaded the trial version of plecodict to play with today and was so impressed that within an hour I had purchased the full thing. I've been studying chinese part time for a year and your application is just brilliant.

There is one thing however that seems to be broken - while the dictionary definition area of the screen correctly displays chinese characters, the input box where I can type seems to always display text from the US-en character set, so when it tries to display chinese, I see garbled international (roman) characters instead. This happens if I accept a character in the handwriting recognition, or if I highlight chinese text and use the bent arrow toolbar thing to copy it to the text area, or if I use the palm /C and /P functions to copy and paste. I can copy and enter english text without a problem.

In all other areas of the application, chinese characters are displayed correctly.

Also, if I enable Instant access in in Prefs/Characters from a button press, all characters in the resulting box that pops up when I press the assigned button are also garbled.

I tried playing around with the (prefs/characters/external text encoding) and input field compatibility settings, but they didn't seem to make any difference.

My hardware is a Zire 72, OS 5.2.8, with a 256mb SD card, and with all plecodict databases and programs installed onto the SD card.

 

[mikelove]

Turn off Input Field Compatibility and that should get the text to display normally in the Input Field - that option's only designed for use with external Chinese display systems like CJKOS. If simply disabling it doesn't work, exit/reopen PlecoDict and that should definitely get the characters to draw correctly.

As for Instant Access, there's unfortunately no way to use that without a Chinese display system, but you wouldn't want to anyway since it's mainly designed to look up characters in other programs (and you'll already need a Chinese system in order to display those).

 

[smeenz]

Turn off Input Field Compatibility and that should get the text to display normally in the Input Field - that option's only designed for use with external Chinese display systems like CJKOS. If simply disabling it doesn't work, exit/reopen PlecoDict and that should definitely get the characters to draw correctly.

Ahh... thanks. It was that simple. I must have turned it on while trying to make the instant access work and hadn't realised the problem within the program only occured when I enabled it.

As for Instant Access, there's unfortunately no way to use that without a Chinese display system, but you wouldn't want to anyway since it's mainly designed to look up characters in other programs (and you'll already need a Chinese system in order to display those).

Ah ok, that makes sense. Thanks