Birdy wrote:Could you confirm the versions of software you mentioned ? Could you try to update your version of BirdieSync to 1.6.4.0 and see if you still have a problem (don't forget to backup your profile before upgrading) ?
Thanks.
Hi Birdy,
I'm sorry! I entered wrong version number for BirdieSync, it should be
1.6.4.0 (2007/11/30). And thank you very much for the investigation. For my case (Japanese Windows Mobile 5,) it seems
events created in PO that containing Japanese characters in Title and Location fields (Category fields using Japanese character have no problem)
displayed character corruption in Lightning. The other way round, nor Address book containing Japanese doesn't have this problem.
I can't be very sure for this: Since the native encoding in Japanese versions of Windows is Shift-JIS, I'm suspecting that
maybe Windows Mobile uses Shift-JIS for internal encoding, thus cause characters been wrongly handled(considering Lightning should be using UTF-8) Don't know if this helps, but in case you need any reginal specific information.
Except this issue, this combination (Thunderbird + Lightning + Provider for Google Calendar) works amazingly perfect! I can decide what calendar to (or not to) import; with the smart function Category <-> Calendar Linking I can create events for different (or remote) calendars. Before using BirdieSync, I've compared other solutions, such as FinchSync or indipendant utilities that import/restore(instead of sync'ing) Google Calendar, but only BirdieSync works best with Thunder Bird. I was also very impressive that a tool developed by non-Japanese native (probabily?
) does even support furigana in Address book.
IMHO this is a must-have tool for all Japanese users - especially for those who would like to use PO instead of using seperate Japanese compatible tools for Calendar/Address/Mail. So Birdy, your investigation for this issue is very meaningful for not only me but also the potential Japanese users. Please hanging there!!
Device OS: Windows Mobile 5
PC OS: Windows XP SP2
Thunderbird: 2.0.0.9 (20071031)
Lightning: 0.7
Provider for Google Calendar: 0.3.1
BirdieSync: 1.6.4.0 (2007/11/30)