Are Datebk3 and WeekView compatible with language hacks for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hebrew…. etc.?
Yes, but you will need to check the option Display uses non-Roman Chars in the Preferences item of the Options menu in the second weekly view in Datebk3 (or main preferences in WeekView) to ensure that character strings are output as a single unit as there are optimizations for Roman characters that interfere with the special hacks that display non-Roman characters. The hacks for displaying Kanji and Hebrew characters both work nicely with this option checked. For the Handspring Visor, you will need a small application to set the non-Roman language preference. Datebook+ does not have Datebk3’s feature of disabling the Roman language optimizations in the second weekly and list views. As a result, some localizers may not display text properly in those views. To solve this problem, download DbPrefsFixup.prc which re-enables this feature for Datebook+. Run it once to disable the Roman language optimizations which will then allow the language hacks to display text properly. Run it again to
