04-09-2006, 09:21 AM | #1 |
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Vade-Mecum 0.6.6.5 is out
A "point-release" 0.6.6.5 of Vade-Mecum is out.
It's a bugfixed version of the recent 0.6.6 that introduced partial support for charsets in Plucker documents. The 0.6.6.5 version includes fixes that finally implemented proper support for that Chinese charsets that appear to be supported by today's handhelds. These include: 1) Simplified Chinese: GB2312, GBK and GB_2312-80 (that is not really a valid charset for WWW but some pages errorneously state they're composed using this charset when instead they use GBK or GB2312). 2) Traditional Chinese: Big5. The Russian charsets (Windows-1251, CP866 and KOI8-R) are properly supported beginning from the v0.6.6 itself. Also Latin-1 and UTF-8 are confirmed to work. The support for charsets requires much more testing since the developers just are unable to test any possible supported charsets due to lack of support for them on their devices/emulators. So please try it out and report back! Also be sure to read this guide to charsets in Vade-Mecum to get some understanding of how this is implemented and what you should and what you should not to expect from Vade-Mecum in this respect. NOTE that proper support for that GB-family of charsets requires patching the Python Plucker distiller. The patched file "CharsetMapping.py" made against the v1.8 release of Python distiller is available for download along with the new release of Vade-Mecum. I hope this file wil eventually be included in the Python Plucker distiller distribution. P.S. We should thank Wong Yiu Fai for his help because he is who cleared up the situation with Chinese charsets to me. Thanks! Last edited by kostix; 04-09-2006 at 09:33 AM. |
04-15-2006, 08:22 AM | #2 |
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It works with Plucker Desktop 1.6.0.0 without replace CharsetMapping.py, Chinese character is correctly decoded.
Still have question -- Is it possible make it display chinese with plucker document coverted by Sunrise? I have tried but unfortunatly failed. Thanks for ur hard work! |
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04-15-2006, 09:26 AM | #3 | ||
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The current (bad) behaviour of PyPlucker is to assume the record has default charset (i.e. "default for channel", if it was specified, or Latin-1, if it wasn't) if the charset of such record is not known (not in the PyPlucker's charset mapping table), so unpatched PyPlucker can produce an unreadable document for you when it faces a charset it doesn't know about--GBK, for example. So you have been warned. ;-) Quote:
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04-15-2006, 07:53 PM | #4 |
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Any chance of being able to remap the buttons in Vade Mecum, to do things like toggle autoscroll, go back and forwards, jump to the next link etc? You can do that in Plucker on the Palm.
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04-16-2006, 04:37 AM | #5 | |
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To go back and forward, you can use "left" and "right" buttons on your joystick (or whatever thingy your device has for it). P.S. Palm Plucker is far more feature-rich than Vade-Mecum. But we're working on this issue. ;-) |
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04-28-2006, 12:37 AM | #6 |
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Just installed on an Dell Axim x51v with WM2005. Works well. Please keep developing this software.
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Is it possible to turn of the image scrollbar for larger images. tovarish |
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05-01-2006, 03:23 PM | #8 | |
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AFAIK, there's no such possibility, but for the first case (in-text) I think this is not feasible (or it must implicitly cause all images to be resized to fit the current screen width). No scrollbars and Plucker-style "tap-and-drag" scrolling in the full-screen mode would be cool. I thought about it already. I'll contact Henrik (he's who implemented support for images) and ask about this. Last edited by kostix; 05-02-2006 at 07:12 AM. |
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