Loneliness of the long-distance linguist.

Shawn and I are working on an article for MSDN Magazine about how to design and take advantage of custom locales. We're trying to supplement the information already available in MSDN and on our blogs with some best practices that ought to help developers...

Out with the LCIDs, in with the string-based identifiers! Well, mostly. You can still use LCIDs to retrieve data for Windows locales, as before. But as I've mentioned here previously, we've also introduced string-based identifiers and associated APIs...

I have been on vacation running this crazy relay race: http://www.hoodtocoast.com But now I am back, enhobbled and all, and it's time to reach into the mail bag to answer one of the most popular questions I've received from readers: What is the...

So you want to develop a globalized application for Windows. You're up to speed on development best practices, you're going to be using Unicode, you know how to use Windows APIs and locale data to enhance the user experience you create. So how do you...

The Microsoft Community Glossary - Linguistic Partnership Project allows members of a speech community to work together to create and standardize technical vocabulary for their language. Community Glossaries can be an important step on the road to software...

For everything you ever wanted to know about Windows globalization and localization, or at least for one or two things, you might like to check out this Channel 9 interview. It features Michael Kaplan , whose blog you may know; Jeff Allen, our director...

One of the disappointing things about the end of a product cycle is that it's too late to add into this version all the cool new customer requests that we get. (Of course, the flip side of this is that one of the great things about new product cycles...

If you're going to use the Locale Builder tool to create a custom locale, you have a couple of options: You can create a brand new locale for a language-region combination that is not currently supported by Microsoft, or you can replace a locale that...

If I do say so myself, I'm pretty good at picking up new languages. My chosen line of work was not selected at random. But pretty much the most interesting thing about learning new languages, for me, is analyzing patterns in the kinds of mistakes I make...

On my way home from work I pass a restaurant that seems from several blocks away to have the following sign in the window: FREE DELI !! I see it and I get all excited. It's always a little disappointing upon closer inspection, which view reveals...