I'm not a Klingon ( )

The Bing Translator folks have announced support for Klingon as a translator option. This was also proclaimed by the Klingon High Council. I've blogged about making a Windows Klingon Custom Locale and Klingon font fallback for the Windows 8 lock screen...

Something strange happened on my Windows 8 Media Center computer. I didn’t really realize it because the computer’s clock is “always right”, right? But I slowly started missing more and more of the beginning of my recorded TV shows...

I noticed an oddity with Media Center Extenders that didn’t work very well with my system, and was causing my computer’s SearchFilterHost.exe to unnecessarily re-index a bunch of stuff in my media libraries. I’m not on the Media Center...

I've said "use Unicode" a lot, but sometimes there are programs that aren't doing what you'd expect, and outputting stuff in a different code page. Additionally, you might sometimes encounter a text file that was created using the system code page of...

My first blog post from a surface! Apparently on Windows RT itʻs possible for Windows Update to check for language packs and office updates (which come through windows update on Windows RT machines) to get out of sync. So if you have a German or Russian...

[Fixed a couple links, sorry about that] Lots of people are happy with the default styles of the WinJS.UI.AppBar and WinJS.UI.AppBarCommands, but what if you want to "colorize" them yourself? In a previous post I talked about using sprites for your...

A while ago I blogged about Klingon in pIqaD in a Custom Locale - that worked OK in Vista & Win7 using Uniscribe font fallback, but Win8 uses DWrite in a lot of places, and DWrite really would prefer EUDC (End User Defined Character) fallback. So...

I helped write an RFC ( http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6532.txt) :) (Well, I've had input before, but this is the first time as an author). The core Email Address Internationalization RFCs, which allow UTF-8 in email addresses and use UTF-8 in SMTP...

This has nothing to do with work (well, OK, I used Windows 8 for some photos, planning, desktop publishing, printing and scanning, so I tested some of those scenarios, but other than that...) [The Lego Wonder is currently (2012) in Building 85. She...

Um, Shawn, what's this got to do with Globalization? Well, in Win8 I've kept some of my Globalization stuff, but I've also been working hard on the AppBar, Flyout, Menu, and SettingsFlyout for HTML Metro Apps, which goes a long way to explaining why...

One of the best new globalization features of Windows 8 is the new Language Profile. From the settings charm, pick "change pc settings", then in the general group, pick "language preferences" to get to the language preferences dialog. The language...

Some people have asked whether Windows supports new Japanese Calendar Emperor eras if that becomes necessary. FWIW That information is stored in the registry on Win7/Win8/.Net4.0+: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Calendars...

"Anonymous" asked a good question in a previous post " http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnste/archive/2006/02/17/klingon-in-piqad-windows-vista-custom-locale.aspx#10235416 ", basically leading to "what's the difference between a user locale and a system locale...

Sometimes you want to see what's in a built-in culture, or maybe you want to figure out what data's in an uplevel culture so that you can make a similar custom culture for an older OS. Here's an easy way to dump the LDML files for all of the cultures...

India changed it's currency symbol, and so now we have an update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2496898 to support the new rupee symbol.

So, for whatever reason, you want to know what the LDML that the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder needs is for all the locales for the box. It's pretty trivial, but: using System; using System.Globalization; class DumpAllLocales { static...

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#1: Is there a really, really good reason you didn't compile your app with the unicode flag? Just the fact that you're asking this question is a pretty big red flag that some user might want to enter Unicode data into your app. Supporting Unicode is pretty...

[Update - Note: A coworker pointed out that it's really Fussball or Fußball, since it's a noun. I knew that, I'm just using the lower case here because domain names get lower cased, which is a seperate issue and I didn't want to complicate the example...

I'm often asked something like "What's the date separator for locale XXX?" Well, not every locale fits our preconceived MM/dd/yyyy concepts. Some of the built-in values that developers may not expect: dd/MM yyyy -- 20/10 2010 -- This one has different...

Well you can't, not yet anyway. Unicode 6.0 adds the new Indian Rupee Symbol at U+20B9 (see http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf ) so how do you get it to work? Unfortunately you can’t get it to work immediately ;-(. The problem’s...

The EAI Working Group ( http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/eai/charter/ ) is making rapid progress toward standardizing Unicode email addresses. Unicode email addresses are a terrific feature for people in many countries that don't use Latin/ASCII as a native...

I was asked for a quick sample of how to build a culture, so here it is: 1.) Start an elevated command prompt (have to be elevated to run CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder.Register()) (press windows key, type cmd, press ctrl+shift+enter is one way). 2...

Someone pointed out the boxes in my blog's title. That's a script some fans use for Klingon, but since it's not in Unicode, you need a pIqaD font to see it correctly. If you really want to see the square boxes, then grab the pIqaD.ttf font from the .zip...

http://موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر (I don't know what it is, I don't read arabic, I'm just pointing it out as an example.) http://президент.рф (for a cyrillic example, apparently the president of Russia web site). -Shawn