http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspxThat night I saw in the pipeline fair A character that wasn't there Non-existence won't stop the encoding; it's true So it's coming soon to a Unicode near you! It all started with Every character has a story #15: CAPITAL SHARP S (not encoded) , anden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#10200807Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:06:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10200807Sorting it all Out<p>It&#39;s possible to go a long way when you don&#39;t even exist. </p> <p> Look how it worked out for the Capital Sharp</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10200807" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#8507175Thu, 15 May 2008 11:52:01 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8507175Sorting it all Out<p>I have not officially decided whether to laugh or cry about this fascinating way to celebrate the encoding</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8507175" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#8397613Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:08:12 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8397613Sorting it all Out<p>Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Note that this</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8397613" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#7878471Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:04:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7878471Sorting It All Out<p>I am writing this blog from my own laptop waiting in the ER at the hospital (all of the quotes are from</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7878471" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#4575560Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:27:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4575560Theo<p>It blows my mind that Microsoft, in General, can be so brazen that</p> <p>a)it finds no problem in making implementing a broken version of German sorting rules (and judging by the blogs author, it's not as if much time or thought was spent on this),</p> <p>b)the .Net architecture is incapable of dealing with the upper/lower case problems,</p> <p>c)the blog author still, many months after the problem surfaced, has not bothered to track down the various German orthographies and uses (spelling reform, regional uses - Swiss, Austrian, German etc). It's a very simple 5 minute search, for the basics: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language#Present">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language#Present</a></p> <p>And Microsoft expects the world to dump all else and use its defective products?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4575560" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#4549114Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:49:02 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4549114Michael S. Kaplan<p>Well note that your proposal maps to exactly what I suggsted for Microsoft to do. :-)</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4549114" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2007/08/24/4536979.aspx#4547918Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:26:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4547918Mihai<p>There are a lot of problems with this, and it's non-reversible mapping from &#223; to SS.</p> <p>So I will come with another insane proposal: Germans should take the uppercase &#223; and start using it:</p> <p> - it is encoded in Unicode</p> <p> - it solves a lot of technical problems (thing that can surely be appreciated by the German mind, so good with engineering and technical problems :-)</p> <p> - the experience of spelling reforms is still fresh</p> <p>So it should be easy, and it will help all of us :-)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4547918" width="1" height="1">