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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

When features collide (aka Your LCID sucks, but sometimes the bug sucks more)

Regular readers might recall a long ago blog entitled New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy? , which talked about the new name-based NLS API functions, intended to wean people off of their use of LCIDs. Because let's face it, LCIDs suck . Anyway, Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

No need to throw out the baby with the streamwriter; they probably could have just put in a replacement

So anyway, Kim 's other recent blog, entitled Making a StreamWriter usable even after given garbage characters , highlights an interesting difference some of the methodology between the way that Windows and .Net handle encoding and codepages. In Windows Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

You can either be intuitive and completely inconsistent, or consistent and completely unintuitive!

People have been misusing the word neutral in the whole area of internationalization of Microsoft products for quite some time now, a fact that I have discussed previously in blogs like Neutral? I do not think that word means what you think it means! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Trying to ignore the small stuff is harder, if you're Arabic

Via the Contact link, Alain asked: Hello Michael, I ask you about a problem I searched on the net all morning and get no response. We work à UNESCO (Paris/France) on a multi-lingual database (SQL Server 2005). We actually add Arabic to a English/French/Spanish/Russian Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Grease is the word; ░░░░░░ not so much...

The question from, the other day was an interesting one. It was something like this: I’m trying to do a word-boundary check, and I noticed regex doesn’t handle boundaries correctly for some extended characters (░╤╞╬═╣etc.). A simple example is “\b░” which Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

ELS is not ESL, or SLE, or SEL, or LES

Extended Linguistic Services . It is something I first mentioned last week, in From ____ to ____ to MUI to ELS -- World Ready @ the PDC! . You should also note that Kieran is talking about it in her blog (ref: What's new for you in Windows 7: Extended Read More...
Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

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

I think we're taking the wrong approach, mostly

In the past, I've done a lot of presentations on globalization and localizability issues. In different companies where I was brought in to do this, they were very well received, because generally a company is being asked to do the work to support another Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Strange control over CTRL and control characters

Via the Contact link, Rich asks: Hi Michael, I've been reading your (very detailed and useful) series on keyboard layouts. There's one thing that's puzzling me with respect to the post about the Caps Lock state ( Getting all you can out of a keyboard Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 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

What's the shape of the sort?

There is an old Marx Brothers routine that goes something like this: Groucho : What's the shape of the world? Harpo : It's terrible. Groucho : No, I'm talking about the shape. Harpro : Oh, that's different. Groucho : So what's the shape of the world? Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 8:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

From ____ to ____ to MUI to ELS -- World Ready @ the PDC!

If you are the PDC in Los Angeles, you may have seen Yaniv Feinberg from the Globalization Services team and Erik Fortune from the Multilingual User Interface team, who did a 75-minute presentation entitled Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:00 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

How the @#%&*! does CBS_SORT choose to sort it all out?

The question was an interesting one: My customer has a tree control with nodes sorted using CString::Compare(). In another part of the application he has the same list of names in a combo box that has the CBS_SORT style set. He wants names to appear in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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