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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shine a Little [Silver]Light

Not a blog about VanVelzen, sorry to disappint any fans of his! Just in case you have been too busy following the presidential race in the USA to notice, Microsoft did just release Silverlight 2.0 . Which is pretty cool in most respects. One piece of Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

What is the freaking point of LOCALE_USE_CP_ACP?

The question I got the other day was a "slightly less suitable for families" version of this blog's title. It came out of It used to be right, dammit! , and reader Jon was kind of confused as to why this flag and so many other *_USE_CP_ACP flags are used Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

Keeping myself up at night figuring out how to delight someone by making that special part of my package smaller

Conventional wisdom tells us that size matters, and unconventional (or more accurately, inappropriate?) wisdom tends to concur. Most of the time it refers to the idea that bigger is better . But there are some times that it matters in the opposite way Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 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
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