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rumtscho · 07-14-2006, 02:10 PM

Hello,

Today I bought my first PDA -a Palm T5, especially for reading e-books. I already like it very much, but there is a serious drawback - I can't make it show a cyrillic text. This is a problem for me, as two of the four languages I speak use cyrillic alphabet only.
The Palm was bought in Germany, on eBay (unused), and it has localisation options for German, English, French and Spanish (I am using the English). I took a text in Russian and another in English, converted them to .pdb using OpenOfficeOrg 2.0 and installed them on the device. Ereader opens both, and the file in English is O.K., but on the Russian one only question marks are shown instead of letters. Saving the texts as .doc files and opening them with Word To Go didn't show any improvement. I couldn't try it as .pdf, because I have a prolem with the reader (I installed it, but it can't open any files).
Does anybody know a way to read a cyrillic text on the PDA? Maybe using another reader, another conversion method, or both?

I would appreciate any kind of help.

07-14-2006, 02:10 PM	#1
rumtscho Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2006	Cyrillic alphabet Hello, Today I bought my first PDA -a Palm T5, especially for reading e-books. I already like it very much, but there is a serious drawback - I can't make it show a cyrillic text. This is a problem for me, as two of the four languages I speak use cyrillic alphabet only. The Palm was bought in Germany, on eBay (unused), and it has localisation options for German, English, French and Spanish (I am using the English). I took a text in Russian and another in English, converted them to .pdb using OpenOfficeOrg 2.0 and installed them on the device. Ereader opens both, and the file in English is O.K., but on the Russian one only question marks are shown instead of letters. Saving the texts as .doc files and opening them with Word To Go didn't show any improvement. I couldn't try it as .pdf, because I have a prolem with the reader (I installed it, but it can't open any files). Does anybody know a way to read a cyrillic text on the PDA? Maybe using another reader, another conversion method, or both? I would appreciate any kind of help.