Reading French on my PDA (Palm OS 4.1)...

[szander]

I am having trouble reading the special, accented letters in French on my PDA. French uses a number of special characters such as à, è, ô, Ç, î, « and » , â, ì, as well as others.

I recently bought the Sony Clie T665C which runs Palm OS 4.1 and I purchased the Collins English-French/French-English Dictonary that was available on Sony's "Back-to-School" promotional website.

I also download the French newspapers from France & Canada and I have the same problem: in place of these special letters, I see only garbled letters.

I am sure there are folks out there who can read French on their PDAs... are there any 3rd party tools I need to install?

Any one have any suggestions?

Thank you. (Merci.)

szander

[hcamstra]

I don't get it. On your on-screen-keyboard (right hand part called "Int'l" all the letters you mention are there, very readable on a Sony (perhaps you need "Thinfont" to beef them up?)

[szander]

Thanks for your reply. The problem isn't "writing" the French characters... its' reading them: for example, I use Avantgo to download several newspapers, including the French language newspapers ("Le Monde" and "Radio-Ici Canada"). When I want to read them, the accented marks used in French do not appear. Instead, I only see garbled letters & markings. They are consistent so I know when I see them, which letters they represent but it's still annoying.

I also purchased the Collins Eng/Fr-Fr/Eng Dictionary. Here too, when I look up a word, the accent marks are all missing.

There must be a 3rd party software available that I can install to read them correctly. After all, they use PDAs all over Canada, France and a host of other French-speaking countries.

FYI... I also read Hebrew on my Clie and I needed to download a special program to read those letters. Luckily, I don't have a problem with that!

Still hoping someone can help with the French!

szander