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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

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

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

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

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

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

Epitomizing the indubitably ephemeral nature of the conceptual link

It was last last week when colleague, comrade, and regular reader Jonas Barklund sent me some mail: Subject: All links on page http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/05/30/610605.aspx appear dead A victim of one of MSDN’s total reshuffles? Well I Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 7:01 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

Can I get your [font]signature on this, please?

Now regular readers know I have talked about the FONTSIGNATURE structure and the LOCALESIGNATURE structure in the past, starting way back in 2005 in blogs like Parameter confusion #2a and It isn't a FONTSIGNATURE, darn it! , both of which refer to the Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

When swimming in a sea of CONTEXT, applications can drown (and there is no lifeguard)

Now I have talked about the good, the bad, the ugly, the pretty, the ins, and the outs of digit substitution many times over the past few years: 01 December 2004 -- Crossing the DIGITal divide... 24 April 2005 -- Is Whidbey's international support finished? Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

What do you get when you put a Hebrew on top of a Russian? (aka What lies beneath can bite you on the ass)

So it was actually a couple of days ago (in the blog titled What a tangled web we weave when a KLID from an HKL we must receive ) that I painted a picture that would cause any normal, sane developer charged with working with keyboard layouts to either Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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