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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

If you say I'll PASS, that means you'll be there!

Warning: Excessive PASS puns follow; if you don't like that sort of thing, then do not PASS... It was one of those fun conversations that I find myself in from time to time. Over IM, I was talking to my friend Rachel (a very smart ASPNET developer I know Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:01 AM 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

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

"We" don't tell you how to spell *our* language in *yours*, so...

Now if you look at all of the following blogs: Uighur or Uyghur? Persian? Or Farsi? Is it Macau or is it Macao? Bangalore or Bengaluru (Bengalūru)? Chaudhuri vs. Chaudhary? Persian? Or Farsi? Redux The real issue we are talking about (once everyone stops Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments
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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

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

You think herding cats is hard? Try herding CATS. Hell, try herding KATS!

It reminds me of a joke that I actually experienced a while back. My cat of blessed memory (Tamara Penelope Kaplan, or Tammy for short) had done something that required stitches. The veterinarian was quite helpful and she (the veterinarian) gave her (the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Inspiration, and a code chart

Way back in September after I did that presentation at the Internationalization and Unicode conference that I mentioned and provided the slides of in Behind the Proposed Change to Tamil in Unicode (five different ways) , Scott sent me the following via Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 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

Je suis prêt

Happy Halloween, everybody! Over on Suzanne Vega's Blog yesterday, in her blog je suis pret! , she describes an interesting phenomenon about language: One thing that has been a growing phenomenon on this tour is that at some point in the show, usually Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 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

Wonder why something is not in the Compact Framework? The answer is in the question!

Regular reader Jan Kučera, in response to Stripping is an interesting job (aka On the meaning of meaningless, aka All Mn characters are non-spacing, but some are more non-spacing than others) , asked in a comment : Any way for the .NET Compact Framework Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 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

Does MS just make up these punctuation-challenged keyboards to piss people off?

Regular reader Jan Kučera asks over in the Suggestion Box: Who does create the keyboard layouts? I'm using the Tamil one, which is nice to play with, yes, but... do people really need to install another layout (and constantly switch between them) just Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
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