Previously I blogged about the instability of culture data . Now I'm going to look at the question from the other direction. Why create a replacement locale/culture instead of a new locale in Vista? Won't that confuse applications when they cross machines...

Windows Vista and .Net 2.0 support custom locales. A couple days ago Michael mentioned to me that people were wondering when someone would actually replace a built-in locale. For new custom locales, its fairly easy to see why people would want to make...

We're working on a tool, the Microsoft Locale Builder, for Windows Vista to help users create their own custom locales. This will help those users that need a tool rather than a managed API to create a custom locale. I'll post a link to the public...

Use custom keyboards, locales, fonts and font linking to create a solution for complex custom locales. I use the made-up Klingon language and pIqad script for my example....