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WebWalker <webwalker@eudoramail.com> wrote in message news:<40m6dug5a4uou9l4emvsq8b4h4a2ov8h8k@4ax.com>...
> Can you hard reset and reselect languague.
> 
> p/s do backup your data first before doing any hard reset.

Well, I can say they seem to be well-intentioned replies, but not
really germane. Actually, in the interim I was already forced into a
hard reset, and didn't even have an option to change language, which
doesn't matter since I don't want to eliminate or interfere with the
Japanese. I'm basically content working in Japanese except for the
relative slowness of input because of the extra conversion steps.
(Yes, I have considered some of the alternatives for Japanese input,
especially the full version of ATOK, but that's a separate topic and
probably merits it's own thread--in Japanese.)

However, I do have a couple of programs where, per the Subject: of
this thread, I am reading in English and it doesn't work perfectly.
The worst offender is the Adobe PDF reader for Palm. Not really
Adobe's fault--their program warns you that it's an unsupported OS.
And it's actually a good thing that it tries to run anyway, and mostly
succeeds. But that leads to...

Right now I think the hackish approach may offer a viable solution. In
particular, I'm experimenting with X-Master and FontHack. So far
X-Master doesn't seem to have any problems in the Japanese
environment, but I'll knock on wood anyway. (Gee, I hope particle
board is an acceptable substitute. Doesn't seem to be any normal wood
around here.)

Unfortunately, the famous version of FontHack just takes one look at
the OS and throws up its hands in despair. Not a crash, but no attempt
at continuation. Not yet sure if this basic approach is going to work,
but of course my idea is to specify a simple and limited English font
for those programs that prefer it. That seems to be within the
capabilities of FontHack, except that I can't yet explore those
capabilities...

So now one alternative is to search for a Japanese version of
FontHack, and since the source code is available there is some chance
someone has already created this. Alternately, there may be an
original Japanese program that does the same thing, or a Japanese
version of a less famous program with similar capabilities. And
finally, there is a new version of FontHack in beta release, and I
could take that desperate step. Perhaps it will accept the Japanese OS
or at least continue trying after that point. I hope that the worst
that could happen is another hard reset.

So now that scope of the problem has been refined a bit more, does
anyone have any suggestions or helpful URLs?