Make sure you have Version 4.1 of the Palm Desktop. If not download it from the Palm Web Site.

Choose which operating system is on your computer:

Do you have Hebrew Windows 95/98 and can not see Hebrew properly in all parts of the Palm Desktop? Follow these steps on your computer to fix this problem.

NOTE: If your computer has the regular (English Only) version of Windows 95/98 then this will not work. (Even if you have a Hebrew word processor, or see Hebrew on the Internet.) See the work around solution for this situation.

1 Click on the Start button.

2 Select Run.

3 At the Open dialogue, type win.ini, and click the OK button.

4 Scroll down until you see the: [FontSubstitutes] section.

5 Go down until you have an empty line in that section (otherwise create one), and add the following text exactly as writtten (with no spaces, use capital letters where stated, make sure to type the number zero, and not the letter "O"):

Arial,0=Arial,177

6 Select the File command from the tool bar, and Exit.

7 Click Yes at the message "Do you want to save the changes?"

8 Reboot your computer.

9 Open the Palm Desktop, you should now see Hebrew correctly.

If this does not work, send us an email.

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Do you see Gibberish (instead of Hebrew) in the Palm Desktop? Do you have Windows 95/98 (English only) version?
The solution is to have the Luach Events on the Palm inserted into the Date Book in English.

Follow these steps on your Palm to fix this problem.

1 Set Luach to "English Only" mode:
Run Luach.
Tap on the Menu silkscreen Icon (next to the graffiti area).
Select "Preferences".
Select "English Only" for User Interface Language.
You'll also probably want to set the Holiday Setting to "Diaspora".
Tap the "OK" button.

2 Tap the "Events" button.
Select a time period (ie: a 5 year span).
Select "Insert" for Action.
Select "Holidays" for Event Type.
Tap on the "Process" button.
Repeat if necessary for other Event Types.

3 Hotsync.

4 On your computer, look at the Palm Desktop. All the new Luach Events will be displayed as untimed events in English.

5 To fix the Hebrew "Gibberish looking" events on your Palm Desktop, you will need to go back to the Palm. Change the User Interface Language to Hebrew (English/Hebrew), and the Holiday setting to the original setting.
Now select "Events" and use the same time period (a longer period , won't do any harm), select "Delete" for Action, and the appropriate Event Type, and select "Process".
Hotsync. Check if there are any "gibberish" looking events, if there are one or two, you can delete them in the Desktop, else try changing the Holiday schedule to the the other selection.

Once you've deleted them all, you can change the User Interface language to Hebrew (English/Hebrew), so you can see on your Palm the holidays displayed in Hebrew in Luach. Remember when you want to insert Luach Events, change the User Interface Language to "English Only".

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Do you have Windows 2000 and can not see Hebrew properly in all parts of the Palm Desktop? Follow these steps on your computer to fix this problem.

1 Click on the Start button.

2 Select Settings.

3 Select Control Panel.

4 In the Control Panel window, double click on Regional Options to open it.

5 In the Regional Options window, on the General tab, there is a scrolling language list with check boxes on the left side of each language ("language settings for the system"). Scroll down this list until you find Hebrew and make sure that Hebrew is checked. If it is not checked, check it now.

6 Select Hebrew so that the line is marked in blue. Click the Set Default button (under the list on the left side). Note: this will not make Hebrew your default keyboard language.

7 The Select System Locale window should now be opened. Click the down arrow to open the scrolling list. Select Hebrew, and click the OK button to close the window.

8 In the Regional Options window, click the OK button.

9 Follow the instructions on the screen to finish the process (this may be different, depending on your Windows 2000 installation).

10 Reboot your computer to allow the changes to take effect. Windows 2000 should now be able to correctly display Hebrew fonts on the Palm Desktop.

If this does not work, send us an email.

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Do you have Windows XP and can not see Hebrew properly in all parts of the Palm Desktop? Follow these steps on your computer to fix this problem.

1 Click on the Start button.

2 Select Control Panel and Regional and Language Options.

3 Select the Languages tab.

4 Look at the Supplemental language support section. Make a check in the first box (Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages including Thai).

5 Click on the Details button.

6 In the Installed services section, click on the Add button. Select Hebrew from the list. Click on the OK button.

7 Now select the Advanced tab from the Regional and Language Options window.

8 In the Language for non-Unicode programs section, select Hebrew from the menu. You will see the Code page conversion tables automatically puts a check next to "10005 (MAC - Hebrew)".

9 Click the APPLY button to close the window.

10 Reboot your computer to allow the changes to take effect. Windows XP should now be able to correctly display Hebrew fonts on the Palm Desktop.

If this does not work, please send us an email.

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