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Pocket PC Forum / End Users / ActiveSync / February 2005utility to copy Unicode files to PPC
As is well known, ActiveSync since version 3.0 is unable to copy files with Unicode filenames to/from a Windows CE device. Dave Johnston made a very promising free little utility that can copy a file with a Unicode filename to the PocketPC. It's still in beta but for this purpose it works well: pocketpaste http://www.johnsto.co.uk/pocketpc.php The utility also can copy the clipboard content to a new file on the PPC preserving Unicode date. Unfortunately PocketWord doesn't play along. As of the 0.27 beta version the format of the newly created file is UTF-8, and this is not understood by PocketWord. PocketWord of Windows Mobile can only correctly open UCS encoded Unicode text files. Likewise the PHM Notepad. if all it is doing is converting unicode to ascii, you can do the same from the pc's dos prompt using the command; TYPE filename.ext > asciifilename.ext Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] ...should point out that the command line utility is a "pure ascii" generator... not sure how a word doc would process, but have used the command for converting XP registry files from unicode to ascii so that the keys are usable in win9x registries. Would be interested in knowing how a unicode doc file fares using this approach. Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices] That's a different problem. I'm talking about copying a file with a filename using a broad spectrum of the Unicode caracters residing on the PC over to a PPC. The point here is to NOT convert Unicode to ANSI, because that will possibly lead to loss of information and thus mangle the filename. That happens with ActiveSync: Any characters not in the system default codepage are converted to ?'s and this translated filename is sent to the PC or PPC respectively. Of course such an operation fails. For example you may have such a filename on the PC: Testname??????????.txt If you try to copy this to the PPC using ActiveSync and if your PC system default locale is Western European, ActiveSync will convert this to Testname??????????.txt If your system default locale is Japanese it will be converted to something like this: Testname??????????.txt So, such a filename can't be copied or synchronized with ActiveSync since version 3. Thus the need for sth like PocketPaste. (I encode this post in UTF8, hopefully your reader can display it correctly) > command for converting XP registry files from unicode to ascii so that the > keys are usable in win9x registries. Ok I tried to post this but it seems that Outlook Express mangles Unicode as well despite being set to UTF encoding. I try again, this time as HTML format. Hopefully it works. Anyway, it just illustrates the point... --- That's a different problem. I'm talking about copying a file with a filename using a broad spectrum of the Unicode caracters residing on the PC over to a PPC. The point here is to NOT convert Unicode to ANSI, because that will possibly lead to loss of information and thus mangle the filename. That happens with ActiveSync: Any characters not in the system default codepage are converted to ?'s and this translated filename is sent to the PC or PPC respectively. Of course such an operation fails. For example you may have such a filename on the PC: =8F=E8=98=8C=A4.text If you try to copy this to the PPC using ActiveSync and if your PC system default locale is Western European, ActiveSync will convert this to =8F=E8=98????.text If your system default locale is Japanese it will be converted to something like this: ??????=A4.text So, such a filename can't be copied or synchronized with ActiveSync since version 3. Thus the need for sth like PocketPaste. (I encode this post in UTF8, hopefully your reader can display it correctly) > command for converting XP registry files from unicode to ascii so that the > keys are usable in win9x registries. I mixed up the Western European and the Japanese example. Sorry. This is for Western locale ??????=B6=A1.text and this for Japanese =84=A1=8F=E8=98????.text |
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