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Apocalypse Font (aka Guess they must have picked the wrong eight characters.)

The title of this blog is an allusion to Coppola's Apocalypse Now , and eventually I'll be quoting a bit of the Herr-provided narration (those are the pieces Martin Sheen read)... It all started with a seemingly innocent question the other day. It went Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

In or out of the default, no way to win, really

Microsoft tends to get criticized, no matter what they (by which I mean we) do. They (by which I mean customers) hate that the default install the additional IME, keyboard, font, and code page files(ref: What isn't in the default install for NLS ). But Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

On blowing a font cache, and overwhelming a Fonts folder with the raw power of typography

In response to About the Fonts folder in Windows, Part 3 (aka What changes in Vista?) , Shaun asked in a comment : I unzipped a large number of font folders into my Windows/Fonts folder and now the unzipped folders are not showing up… my Fonts folder Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:51 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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Being smart, by not trying to be clever

There are times that Microsoft Word is too smart for its own good The message I received via the Contact link was: Dear Michael, First, I would like to thank you for your great BLOG! Well done! I've spent many hours reading and studying various articles Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

This is not yet my take on DirectWrite

More news out of the PDC. :-) I had a few people point out after they saw the talk I pointed to in From ____ to ____ to MUI to ELS -- World Ready @ the PDC! (the one that I liked the content but didn't care for the title, and I though could have used Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Ready... set... Reboot Redux, part Deux!

Now it all started with Ready... set... Reboot! back in February of 2005, where the issues of reboot and the default system locale were first discussed. And then the follow-up ( Ready... set... Reboot Redux ), which talks about how sometimes you might Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Silverlight as Esau: selling its implementation for a pot of interface

Apologies for the biblical metaphor in the title... Now I mentioned last week in Shine a Little [Silver]Light that Sometime soon I'll talk about the next big question that is likely to be on many people's minds after they look at the slides. and with Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Consoling oneself about being unable to set the console font

The other day, Marjan Venema asked over in the Suggestion Box: For Vista we can use the SetCurrentConsoleFontEx API to switch a console window to use Lucida or another font that supports Unicode symbols. Unfortunately there is no similar API for XP (or Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

See? The MSKLC support story is as easy as 1 2 3 4...

Over in the Suggestion Box, Gene Sorensen asked: Dear Michael, Thank you for an incredibly helpful tool in the MSKLC, and for your helpful blog. I have two questions related to the MSKLC: 1. Will the MSKLC install into 64-bit Vista? We are using it in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:06 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Getting farther from ASCII (on a scale of yellow to Atlantis)

Mail from Simon is as always (a) funny, (b) important, (c) interesting, or (d) all of the above. Hi latest mail was technically in category "C" and it ended up being a little bit of category "A", albeit unintentionally.... He forwarded me this link, with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 5: What's on the Next Level?

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Tamil language support in Windows? You can't SHRII-k yet, but it's getting better

So back in Unicode 4.1, Unicode added ஶ ( U+0bb6 , aka TAMIL LETTER SHA). Then there was a {ahem} brief delay, after which Vista shipped. For the record, the Latha font was updated prior to ship. . Two points for Microsoft Typography! Originally I thought Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 8:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

I'm not Arial, I'm HEL-𝔉𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤-VETICA, baby!

This blog pays homage to Who would win in a fight between Helevetica and Arial? of course... In the spirit of other typographical t-shirt blogs of the past like İ şéè đêäđ ķéÿš The Company Meeting, the interesting science of Forensic Typography, and what Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

About the Fonts folder in Windows, Part 5 (Nothing personal!)

A series is never so dead that it can't be revived for another run! Previous blogs in the series: Part 1 - What are we talking about? Part 2 - Adding fonts Part 3 - What changes in Vista? Part 4 - Eto Akta Gamat, aka Magical Protection? And why was this Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Is it mean to hope that the next one to talk about working on the aisle spontaneously loses his voice?

The title has nothing to do with the blog! In this crucial time where we need to reduce, renew, reuse, recycle, and in general preserve our precious natural resources, blogs like this one: Dead Celebrities Made Out Of Fonts Isn't it great in these trying Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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