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Problem with Dopod 900 (Chinese version)

Anybody is using Dopod 900 (Chinese version)?
I have got several questions and see if anyone can help:
1. Is there a way that I can change the font from MingLiu to Arial when I write emails which only contain English characters?
2. How can I change the preset wording on the subject of an email like "回覆" & "轉寄" and others like "寄件者" when I reply or forward emails? I would like to change them to English "Re:" & "Fw:", etc.
Thanks
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shu_sum said:
Anybody is using Dopod 900 (Chinese version)?
I have got several questions and see if anyone can help:
1. Is there a way that I can change the font from MingLiu to Arial when I write emails which only contain English characters?
2. How can I change the preset wording on the subject of an email like "回覆" & "轉寄" and others like "寄件者" when I reply or forward emails? I would like to change them to English "Re:" & "Fw:", etc.
Thanks
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1. you can do it ,first you need to find Arial in your computer and copy it to you PPC see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=30094&start=0 in yyl's post you need change key than you can get it.
2.I don't think you can change this.

Thanks mwang! I'll try changing the fonts later today.
By the way, do you know how we can change the default input method from "ㄉ" to "A"?

I have just transferred the simhei.tff to Universal's "Windows/" directory. I then went to "FontLink" / "SystemLink"by using Regedit and changed the value of both Courier New and Tahoma to: "\windows\simhei.ttf,SimHei"
After soft-reset, everything has changed to SimHei, including the Chinese characters shown under Menu, IE, etc. , but.... when I click reply to Email or SMS, it still show the MingLiu fonts.....
How can I change this (i.e. the fonts under Pocket Outlook mail)?

shu_sum said:
I have just transferred the simhei.tff to Universal's "Windows/" directory. I then went to "FontLink" / "SystemLink"by using Regedit and changed the value of both Courier New and Tahoma to: "\windows\simhei.ttf,SimHei"
After soft-reset, everything has changed to SimHei, including the Chinese characters shown under Menu, IE, etc. , but.... when I click reply to Email or SMS, it still show the MingLiu fonts.....
How can I change this (i.e. the fonts under Pocket Outlook mail)?
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Sorry , I don't this ,maybe you can look here http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry

2 text messages before 160characters?!!!

Yeah well the topic explains itself, I use the 2.06.00WWE rom on my XDA II and when I text someone it sends 2 messages before I even type 160characters, I remember a LONG time ago there was a topic on how to fix this but I don't remember, someone please help!

imablackhat,
Man you've got a nice sounding nickname, pls be by no means offended I really like it much better than mine
You're right there's a thread about it & can't remember which one, but I gues you're unicode characters or other special ones which occupy two bytes instead of one.
Know what i mean?
Regards, M

imablackhat said:
when I text someone it sends 2 messages before I even type 160characters
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This happens when you use characters in your message which require unicode.
The standard SMS message only allows for approx. 70 chars/SMS in unicode.
Avoid unicode chars when writing SMS and check the counter which tells you exactly how many chars you have left and how many SMS will be sent.
Sascha

usually occurs when a word gets auto-corrected to include an apostrophe, eg when you type dont and it corrects it to don't, the ' screwes up the whole message. if you type don't yourself manually, then its fine, but the autocorrect is the main problem..

omniwolf said:
usually occurs when a word gets auto-corrected to include an apostrophe, eg when you type dont and it corrects it to don't, the ' screwes up the whole message. if you type don't yourself manually, then its fine, but the autocorrect is the main problem..
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Bad example since don't does not trigger unicode.
On the other hand don´t or don`t will trigger unicode.
It depends on the exact character used und it is clearly shown by the messaging application.
So check it before sending.
Sascha

well if you read my message, i explicitely said it was when dont was autocorrected to don't. the ` or whatever character looks the same on the pda screen

SMS only 70 Letters?!

As a few of you know i have only just got my Magician, and i have been using it for the last few days and i have to say that i love it i really do, but i do have one problem, when replying to an sms message the counter starts at 160 but then after writing a line or so it drops to 70! So for a 160 letter sms it sends it in two messages of 70! :shock:
Anyone got any ideas on what that might be?

i had the same problem too.. except after 3 messages it split to 3 messages for 112 charachters... was confused too....

jaso2005 said:
As a few of you know i have only just got my Magician, and i have been using it for the last few days and i have to say that i love it i really do, but i do have one problem, when replying to an sms message the counter starts at 160 but then after writing a line or so it drops to 70! So for a 160 letter sms it sends it in two messages of 70! :shock:
Anyone got any ideas on what that might be?
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Please check to see if you use any dobule byte character in your SMS. This might be the cause.
Michael

Hey guys this is due to the fact that when you write the SMSs you are including UNICODE characters such as ' " etc....
Due to the fact that these characters are encoded differently to standard characters, the SMS application has to reduce the number of characters in the sms and hence only allows 70 characters per sms.......which could mean that you send a short sms or send the sms split up! This can cost you a lot!!!
You have two options........
1/ Turn off Unicode characters
- this is done by; from you SMS inbox -> Tools -> Options -> Accounts Tab -> Click on * Text Messages -> un-tick the 'Use Unicode when necessary' -> then OK.
2/ Make sure that you don’t use Unicode characters
hope this helps!!

you can also turn unicode and double-byte characters off as well.
in messaging app, tap accounts, and then accounts
tap text messages, and then untick use unicode when necessary.
This still allows you to type in the extra characters, but wether it sends them or not, I dont know (being an uneducated englishman, i only speak english so never use those characters!)

this place just never seases to amaze me! Thanks very much guys you all deserve a star! :lol:

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Karzi said:
if you donate 5 euros then u get a star lol :lol:
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I have the same problem because i want to write sms in greek, but when i turn off the unicode the message fonts cannot be recognized by greek phones. Is there any other solution to this problem.

jigero said:
I have the same problem because i want to write sms in greek, but when i turn off the unicode the message fonts cannot be recognized by greek phones. Is there any other solution to this problem.
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No, because greek characters are in the extended unicode set, not the default characters.

but how come we can send 160char greek sms with other phones ?
perhaps there is a keyboard mapping that doesn't use unicode...

woh guys!! I wondered why my qtek S110 did wierd stuff.. it's all ok now thanks to you!! CHEEERS!! ;o)

mapas said:
but how come we can send 160char greek sms with other phones ? perhaps there is a keyboard mapping that doesn't use unicode...
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In the default 7-bit SMS alphabet, the greek letters that do not have a latin equivalent (say beta -> B) or omomorph (say rho -> P) letter, that is delta, phi, gamma, lambda, omega, pi, psi, sigma theta and xi are available, but you can't chose between upper and lower case. The official character set only supports UPPER case...
There are a few semistandard for dealing with upper and lower cases, but it's quite likely that the sms application on windows mobile can't deal with either.

but with the greek keyboard it works!!!!!
only with the phone pad not......

How about Chinese characters?

Why only 70 characters SMS?

When I start a new SMS it appears 160 remaining characters. It's when I have to choose the recipient, but when I begin writing the remainig number of characters changes to only 70, so If I write 71 or more, there are at least 2 SMS to send...
Why only 70 characters?
Is there any way to increase the longitude of them?

some special characters can do that, like accents or brackets etc. Try not to use them

Hi
This use to happen on some smartphones that I used to have.
Try unchecking the 'Use unicode when neccesary' box
In Messaging select Tools--->Options--->Tap text Messages.
Let me know the outcome
Regards
S.K.

silent_killa said:
Hi
This use to happen on some smartphones that I used to have.
Try unchecking the 'Use unicode when neccesary' box
In Messaging select Tools--->Options--->Tap text Messages.
Let me know the outcome
Regards
S.K.
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I've just unchecked this option. I'll communicate the result.
Thank you.

PERFECT!!!
Now SMS's become 160 characters again.
Thank you.

I've seen this happen on phones if the auto correct feature is set to try and correct apostrophe characters (for example, changing its to it's )

Mariete said:
PERFECT!!!
Now SMS's become 160 characters again.
Thank you.
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Great, glad to be of help.
S.K.

Please help: Unicode SMS problem solutions

As everyone who tried using T9 and non-ascii characters you probably are aware of the, let's call it, *Question mark glitch*.
For anyone not familliar with this, the problem is that when ha the "Use Unicode when necessary" box unchecked and inserts a non-ascii character in a SMS message, the recipient receives question marks.
There seems to be no built in solution. Checking the box implies avoiding Unicode, which is painful when using T9 in some languages.
OK, now let me explain why I'm posting in this forum.
I'm doing a research on available options to create some simple app, which can help with the above. The ideas are:
1. A background application/service, which would intercept outgoing SMS messages and strip any Unicode characters
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This was my first idea. Unfortunately I've had hard time finding a viable solution. As long as sending and intercepting incoming messages is easy, control over outgoing SMS doesn't look too good. The CEMAPI is a pain but I may be missing somethig.
2. Another idea is to remap the Send softkey to own logic, which would strip Unicode.
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This seems an eay, higher-level approach to the first idea. If anyone would find this a good idea, do point in the right direction. Specifically in remapping the softkey (all I was able to find was rempping Today screen softkeys).
3. One last idea is simply to create a replacement SMS messaging app.
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Many of those exist but I'd very much like them it to nicely integrate with WinMo and TF3D. Is that any doable?

Man, this forum is so alive
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