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You most definitely will get some garbage on the screen when you try entering or hotsyncing national characters on your Palm first time. Don't panic.

Windows NT/2000

1. Goto Control Panel -> Regional Settings. Set your language, check Set as system default. Reboot.
2. Goto Control Panel -> Regional Settings. Set English, leave Set as system default unchecked.
3. Reboot. Install Service Pack 3 (or higher, NT only). Now you should be able to see national characters.
4. To enable national keyboard, select your language in Keyboard in Control Panel.

The patch from Paragon Software (link on Download page) fixes national language problems in Palm Desktop for Windows. Please run it in your Palm directory.

Windows 95/98/ME

Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to set Windows 95/98/ME system locale without reinstalling Windows. You have to specify your target language in Regional Settings screen during installation. If you want currency, date, weekday and names of the months in different languages it could be changed after installation in Regional Settings in Control Panel.

If the Palm Desktop still shows strange characters instead of national ones, you need to apply one of the below two fixes:

The patch from Paragon Software (link on Download page) fixes national language problems in Palm Desktop for Windows. Please run it in your Palm directory.

Alternatively, add the following entry to your win.ini:

[FontSubstitutions]

MS Sans Serif,0=MS Sans Serif,NUMBER

where NUMBER is a charset id:

• 161 - Greek
• 162 - Turkish
• 186 - Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian)
• 204 - Russian
• 238 - Eastern Europe (Croatian, Polski, Czech)

Palm Desktop 4.01

Palm Desktop 4.01 requires you to add the following entry in your win.ini:

[FontSubstitutions]

Arial,0=Arial,NUMBER

Please see charset ids above for NUMBER values.

MacOS

The following did work for a couple of folks:

In order to see national language in Palm Desktop for Mac (2.6.1, 2.5 and 2.0):

1. Use patches from Download page
   • Unpack from .hqx using BinHex extractor, for example, CPT
   • Execute resulting .sea file
   • Run all four patches one by one, answering questions
2. Set your system fonts to your language (if they are not yet).
   • You can try files (system fonts) from: ftp.apple.com/
     Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/
   • Select your language
   • Follow to Machintosh, System and System_7.0.1

Alternatively, language kits for some languages are avaialble on MacOS 9 CD, in case of iMac:

• iMac Install CD / CD Extras / Language Kits CD Extras
• To enable national keyboard, goto Apple menu icon (left upper corner of the screen), select Control Panels, then keyboard. Select suitable keyboard for your language script. Switch keyboard layouts by pressing Meta+Space.

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