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Terrence

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« on: April 25, 2005, 11:52:02 am »
I have lost all of the english fonts in from my C3000. I stupidly deleted them
(relying on an rm -i interactive which didn't exist). Anyway, I want to find out
how to get them back. Could someone tgz their /hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/en/
directory and email it to me, or else let me know where I can download all
of the qmid files?
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2005, 09:33:38 am »
There is nothing in my /hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/en directory except poqetp.qm which is not really required unless you have openoffice presentation viewer installed.
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2005, 10:08:44 am »
Does anyone know how to get a £ character on their Zaurus, I've never managed it, I have the unifont installed and I can get european characters, but there doesn't seem to be a £ character, even when I look through the unifont onscreen selector tool.

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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2005, 08:12:43 am »
add the following code segment into keyhelper.xml and type khctl reload in your console

<define code="2017">
  <map key="A"/>
  <map_unicode code="0x0a3"/>
</define>

this will generate £ character when you press "Fn" + "A"
however, not all applications will be able to display it depending on which fonts and character sets they support.
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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2005, 09:23:53 am »
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There is nothing in my /hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/en directory except poqetp.qm which is not really required unless you have openoffice presentation viewer installed.
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Damn. How can I get my english fonts back? Now all the applications and pulldown
menus just have little boxes instead of letters. I can't do anything! I don't remember
what is on the pull down menus since I have only had the C3000 for a month or so.

Does anyone know how to get the english qm or qmid files to replace the Japanese
ones that come on the rom?
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2005, 12:46:53 pm »
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There is nothing in my /hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/en directory except poqetp.qm which is not really required unless you have openoffice presentation viewer installed.
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Damn. How can I get my english fonts back? Now all the applications and pulldown
menus just have little boxes instead of letters. I can't do anything! I don't remember
what is on the pull down menus since I have only had the C3000 for a month or so.

Does anyone know how to get the english qm or qmid files to replace the Japanese
ones that come on the rom?
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I don't think it's a font problem. Your locale is probably set wrong.

Edit /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf and make sure lang = en and then reboot
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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2005, 12:05:01 pm »
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There is nothing in my /hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/en directory except poqetp.qm which is not really required unless you have openoffice presentation viewer installed.
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Damn. How can I get my english fonts back? Now all the applications and pulldown
menus just have little boxes instead of letters. I can't do anything! I don't remember
what is on the pull down menus since I have only had the C3000 for a month or so.

Does anyone know how to get the english qm or qmid files to replace the Japanese
ones that come on the rom?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77865\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I don't think it's a font problem. Your locale is probably set wrong.

Edit /home/zaurus/Settings/locale.conf and make sure lang = en and then reboot
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No. My locale is not set wrong. I deleted the .qm files that translate the
desktop messages into english. If you don't believe me simply go to your
/hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/ directory and type cp ja/* en/
This is essentially what I did. You will see that you have no more english
fonts for your desktop apps regardless of your locale.
The reason that I stupidly did this was that I thought it would be interactive
and I could choose not to overwrite any of them but would add the japanese
version of the missing ones. This was because I was getting some errors
with some of the apps saying that they couldn't find the fonts. I thought I
could get rid of the errors by just putting in the japanese fonts. It worked.
I got rid of the errors. Unfortunately I got more than I bargained for and
replaced all of the english .qm files with the corresponding japanese ones
and now I can't read any of the pulldowns or popups on any of the apps.

What I need is simply to get the original english .qm files from
the /hdd2/QtPalmtop/il8n/en directory from someone.
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2005, 02:17:36 pm »
The .qm files on the Z are for translating software from English to Japanese. To translate software (aka Un-Translate) you *remove* the .qm files. The only files I have in the en directories on either of my Cacko installations are the .qmid files used to translate the originally Japanese media player software from Sharp.

To put it another way, your destop messages are originally in English. When you set your locale to JA it notices the .qm files and translates everything. When you copied all the .qm files from JA to EN, you're telling the English locale to translate to Japanese. Try removing your .qm files from your EN directory.

EDIT: After making the change, you may have to reboot, or restart Qtopia. Changing locales from EN to JP and back may also work.
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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2005, 12:20:49 pm »
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The .qm files on the Z are for translating software from English to Japanese. To translate software (aka Un-Translate) you *remove* the .qm files. The only files I have in the en directories on either of my Cacko installations are the .qmid files used to translate the originally Japanese media player software from Sharp.

To put it another way, your destop messages are originally in English. When you set your locale to JA it notices the .qm files and translates everything. When you copied all the .qm files from JA to EN, you're telling the English locale to translate to Japanese. Try removing your .qm files from your EN directory.

EDIT: After making the change, you may have to reboot, or restart Qtopia. Changing locales from EN to JP and back may also work.
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I managed to get the english fonts back in a strange way. First I screwed everything up
by trying to install OpenBSD. Then I used [a href=\"http://www.xlfag.com/zaurus/]http://www.xlfag.com/zaurus/[/url] to reinstall my
zaurus from scratch which worked beautifully and gave me not only my english fonts back
but even some extra software that I didn't have before (of course I lost the various things
that I had installed such as c++ complier. Then I used fdisk to reduce the vfat partition
to about 1 gig. Then set up an A6 openbsd partition with the left over space after re-sizing
the vfat partition. Finally I used http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html to install OpenBSD on
the new hda4 partition. Everything works great!
One note though. When you start to install BSD on the new partition any reboot will not
immediately boot hda1 or hda4, you will get a boot> prompt.
pressing enter boots hda4 (which is set to active)
typing reboot boots hda1 (which is the normal Qtopia thing)
actually you could just type `r' instead of `reboot' since it don't
give you much time...
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