After helping to ship Visual Studio 2005 , making sure it can be used around the world (sorry, this took up a lot of my time and I didn't blog much in the last couple of months) I felt that the time was ripe for a new challenge - pursuing a masters degree...

This year at Tech·Ed 2005 in Orlando, FL, USA we will not only have individual sessions covering internationalization, but a whole virtual track ! We have everything from pre-conference sessions covering the basics for someone getting started to in-depth...

The program for the 27th Internationalization and Unicode Conference (in Berlin on April 6-8) was just published. I am going to present two talks on the improvements for the development of globalized and multi-lingual applications in Visual Studio 2005...

Michele wrote a thorough whitepaper about our new ASP.NET 2.0 localization functionality. Great job! Thanks for the kudos ! She also did a webcast on the same topic last week - mainly focusing on ASP.NET 1.x, but also covering the new features for v2...

Ahmed and Brian are talking about using managed resources on MSDN TV . Resources and localization are of course joined at the hip, so you might want to check this out.

The command prompt in Windows has a number of limitations when it comes to dealing with Unicode – it does not support complex scripts (like Arabic, Hebrew, Indic languages), the raster font selected by default depends on the system locale and only supports...

Via Jon Udell diagrams of language and alphabet trees for Indo-European languages - interesting. I wonder if something like this is available for other language families.

If you are going to Amsterdam next week and are interested in globalization/localization check out these sessions: DEV392: “.NET Framework: Building Applications with Globalization in Mind“ by Michele Leroux Bustamante giving architectural...

Yesterday in the morning I saw a new Cisco ad on TV advertising their newest color IP phone - in Italian with English subtitles. It seems to be a trend these days to do non-English ads. Does this mean the US becomes more multi-lingual now? Beats me, the...

Christian Forsberg wrote an article on how to create multi-lingual and globalized .NET CF applications. Nice. The sample application looks a bit similar to the WorldClock sample application I wrote a while ago, but of course with more info and without...

I've been playing with the idea to blog for a while - now I'm in it and it wasn't too difficult to get started. I think the hardest thing is to consider what to blog about. I plan to blog about the thing I care about most in computing - internationalization...