Summary
As of v1.0, text in synced records can come out garbled when converting between the Palm and the PC. This affects both directions (Palm → PC and PC → Palm).
Likely cause
A round-trip mismatch in one or more of:
- Encoding — the Palm uses CP1252 while the PC store is UTF-8; characters may not be transcoded consistently on the way in/out.
- Line endings — CR / LF / CRLF may not be normalized on round-trip.
- Field packing — how records are packed back into the
.pdb format (field-presence bitmap / offsets) may corrupt or shift text.
Impact
Synced record fields (e.g. contact notes/addresses) may display or write back garbled.
Workaround
Back up your device before syncing important data.
Status
Not yet fixed as of v1.0. A fix is planned — contributions and additional details (sample records, before/after text, device model) are welcome.
Summary
As of v1.0, text in synced records can come out garbled when converting between the Palm and the PC. This affects both directions (Palm → PC and PC → Palm).
Likely cause
A round-trip mismatch in one or more of:
.pdbformat (field-presence bitmap / offsets) may corrupt or shift text.Impact
Synced record fields (e.g. contact notes/addresses) may display or write back garbled.
Workaround
Back up your device before syncing important data.
Status
Not yet fixed as of v1.0. A fix is planned — contributions and additional details (sample records, before/after text, device model) are welcome.