[top]Conflicts and cases where CJKOS doesn't work
CJKOS *does not* work with Documents To Go, excepting versions 7 and 8 (or 8 and 9?).
If you want to use CJKOS, and still be able to have non-English European languages on your device,
you are probably out of luck. Due to the way CJKOS works (which is quite technical), if you have,
say, the word divorcee, but with the proper é, then it will convert from divorcée to divorc(..)
where the (..) represents a single Chinese character, thus making it anywhere between hard and
totally impossible to use non-English European languages together with CJKOS.
However, if you do install CJKOS and find that it's converted all your accents to characters, the
easy way to revert is to simply turn off CJKOS. There, at present, doesn't seem to be a solution
or workaround for having CJKOS and non-English European languages at the same time.
Additionally, when synching Chinese Characters written using CJKOS to your desktop, you will need
to either have your regional settings set to Chinese PRC (or Taiwan, if you're using Traditional
Characters), or use AppLocal on Windows in order to be able to see them. Otherwise they will
appear as garbage.
Finally, CJKOS was developed primarily to write Chinese. While it supports display of Japanese
Kanji and Kana, there's no way to write Japanese Kanji using it, and as such you'll need a
separate program if you plan on using Japanese a lot. You can write Kata-/Hiri- gana, but there's
no way to convert them to Kanji. J-OS (http://simple-palm.com/) is one option, but be aware that
the page is in Japanese, and there have been reports that you need a Japanese Bank Account for it.
[top]Handwriting Input
[top]PenPower
UNFINISHED
Note: The interface is entirely in Chinese, and it needs CJKOS to function.
[top]Palms and Plecodict
The popular dictionary software for Palm, Plecodict, comes with character display and input built
in. Therefore you do not need any extra software to run Plecodict. However, you will need it if
you want to use Chinese in other applications - ie email, SMS, web browsing, etc.
[top]Windows Mobile / CE
CE Star - Perhaps the most useful tool to enable the use and reading of Chinese characters on the
windows mobile device. Its pretty easy to use, and even if you dont use the SIP/IME you can still
read Chinese on your device. It does however conflict with Pleco 2 at the moment and it also has
issues with MS Reader. This is not free but can be found at this site http://www.ce-star.com/
Monster Chinese - Is perhaps the alternative to CE Star. Its just as easy to use and has many
different SIPs/IMEs that can be used to type in Chinese. There have been rumblings of trouble
using this program on the newer windows devices but this is has yet to be confirmed This can be
found here http://www.mactiontech.com/english/monster_chinese.asp
D-ear input is a nice and very easy to use. Their are two that I know of the 10 key input and the
full keyboard. I have not found any conflicts using this program so far but its not one I use that
often. (Can be found for free at this site http://www.d-ear.com/English/newsview.asp?id=174
(thanks to Oulaian)
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Contributors: Shadowdh, ipsi(), roddy, muyongshi
Created by ipsi(), 13th October 2007 at 09:04 AM
Last edited by Shadowdh, 5th May 2008 at 05:29 PM
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