I had a LOT of trouble with Supermemo for CE (HP Journada). I don't know if the Palm version of SM is different to the CE one, but it seems that importing in Q&A format does not support unicode, you have to use XML format. I therefore had to create an XML file using Excel and (even worse) convert all unicode characters to decimal Numeric Character References (NCRs). Decimal NCRs are the codes as used in HTML for example 仮名 is &# 20206;&# 21517; (without the spaces, I put those in to prevent the message board software from displaying them as characters). The 5 figure number is the characters unicode code in decimal.
Here is a sample of the resulting XML file, showing the Q&A for 一 (one):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SuperMemoCollection>
<Count>2042</Count>
<SuperMemoElement>
<Type>Item</Type>
<Content>
<Question>one</Question>
<Answer>&# 19968;&# 12288;&# 12300;&# 12452;&# 12481;&# 12301;&# 12288;&# 12308;1&# 12309;</Answer>
</Content>
</SuperMemoElement>
(Without the spaces in the string of NCRs, as above)
The other 2042 items follow in succesive <SuperMemoElement> elements, followed by the closing tag: </SuperMemoCollection>
The string of NCRs in the example look like this:
一 「イチ」 〔1〕
which is the character, onyomi and character frame number (the latter two items in Japanese brackets, but of course you only really need the character itself in NCR format, the rest was just me being fancy, and you can add any other content that you want.
I had a few problems with encoding settings in SM after that, and then you have to remember to set the answer in a unicode font (e.g. MS Mincho). I view in non-HTML format in SM, as I had problems with the HTML view, I think because the implementation of HTML in this version of SM is very crude, and it worked out better without.
If you want any of the files I produced to try this out let me know. Of course, I don't know if SM/Palm will throw up problems I didn't come up against in SM/CE.
Here is a sample of the resulting XML file, showing the Q&A for 一 (one):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SuperMemoCollection>
<Count>2042</Count>
<SuperMemoElement>
<Type>Item</Type>
<Content>
<Question>one</Question>
<Answer>&# 19968;&# 12288;&# 12300;&# 12452;&# 12481;&# 12301;&# 12288;&# 12308;1&# 12309;</Answer>
</Content>
</SuperMemoElement>
(Without the spaces in the string of NCRs, as above)
The other 2042 items follow in succesive <SuperMemoElement> elements, followed by the closing tag: </SuperMemoCollection>
The string of NCRs in the example look like this:
一 「イチ」 〔1〕
which is the character, onyomi and character frame number (the latter two items in Japanese brackets, but of course you only really need the character itself in NCR format, the rest was just me being fancy, and you can add any other content that you want.
I had a few problems with encoding settings in SM after that, and then you have to remember to set the answer in a unicode font (e.g. MS Mincho). I view in non-HTML format in SM, as I had problems with the HTML view, I think because the implementation of HTML in this version of SM is very crude, and it worked out better without.
If you want any of the files I produced to try this out let me know. Of course, I don't know if SM/Palm will throw up problems I didn't come up against in SM/CE.