The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

PalmOS - the last pre-Unicode operating system?

Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: August 19, 2004, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Ken Krugler (TransPac Software, Inc.)
Topic: PalmOS - the last pre-Unicode operating system?
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop.
Admission: $4, free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com

Palm OS is one of the few significant new platforms in the past ten
years. Like most older operating systems, it was first released in 1995
as a US-centric platform, with limited support for European locales, and
no support for non-Latin character sets.

Starting in 1997, TransPac Software has worked with PalmSource to make
their OS more localizable. Ken's talk will discuss some of the problems
encountered, and lessons learned, during this occasionally painful process.

Ken Krugler believes that his life as an international software engineer
is revenge by his high school German teacher (he hated that class). He's
worked at Apple on the Lisa & Mac operating systems, been a ski bum in
Aspen, lived in Japan and Hong Kong, and worked on KanjiTalk,
ZhongWenTalk, ThaiTalk, Tibetan and various other incantations of the
classic Mac OS. He founded TransPac Software, Inc. in 1987, and has
been making a living fixing other people's code ever since.

He dreams of the day when the only character set he has to worry about
is Unicode.

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