Introducing xml:lang in XAML In a previous blog post I wrote about locales and cultures and described how you can use them to control the behavior and output of your programs to better match the regional expectations of your global users. Some of the...

Yomigana is a reading aid used in the Japanese language; it consists of smaller-sized syllabic characters (Kana or Romaji) printed beside an ideographic character (Kanji) to indicate its pronunciation. There are conventions to positioning this...

In addition to the previously launched Visual Studio 2010 International Survey in English , French , German , Italian , Japanese , Korean , Russian , Spanish , Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese , we have translated the survey into Brazilian Portuguese...

You may or may not have heard about IDN and are wondering about what it is. In this blog post I’ll introduce the concept of IDN. Most modern operating systems and applications natively support Unicode . However, both the DNS and SMTP protocols...