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Pseudo Locales in Windows Vista Beta 2
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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What's a pseudo locale? Pseudo-Locales are an aid to pseudo localization testing. MSDN has an article about Pseudo-Locales. Basically pseudo data is used during localization to make strings like [Шěđлеśđαỳ !!!], 8 ōf [Μäŕςћ !!] ōf 2006 instead of Wednesday...
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Calendar Assumptions: Why does Windows (or .Net) have 13 month names?
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
0
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Sometimes people have wondered why DateTimeFormatInfo.MonthNames returns an array of 13 months, or why there's a LOCALE_SMONTHNAME13. The answer is that some calendars have 13 months. The MSDN Calendar.GetMonthsInYear() has an example of when "leap" months...
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What's with Encoding.GetMaxByteCount() and Encoding.GetMaxCharCount()? Part 2
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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A little over a year ago I wrote What's with Encoding.GetMaxByteCount() and Encoding.GetMaxCharCount()? to address the question "Why does GetMaxCharCount(1) for my favorite Encoding return 2 instead of 1." (Short answer is that the Decoder/Encoder could...
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Custom cultures & resources; BCL Team Blog; also ResourceManager Video
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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Recently I've had some questions about resource loading/fallback in .Net and how it works. Brian posted a ResourceManager Video Presentation on the BCL Team's WebLog . If you're interested in resource loading this might be helpful. In general custom...
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I changed an earlier post
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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I don't normally change existing posts, but I don't want to be misleading. With the change of culture names for Windows Vista , there were some minor changes to how cultures were registered, so I updated the Cheating to Install Custom Cultures - Updated...
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Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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The behavior for UTF8Encoding, UnicodeEncoding and UTF32Encoding has changed in Windows Vista to conform better to the Unicode 5.0 requirements for Unicode Encodings. [23 July 2007: Now this behavior has also been made to .Net 2.0 with MS07-040 update...
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Internet Explorer has more explicit language names in Windows Vista
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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In Windows XP, Internet Explorer only provided partial tags for some languages. French (France) was "fr" and Japanese was "ja", yet English was "en-US". In Windows Vista, IE7 is now using full locale names for the language, so HTTP Accept Language...
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Change in .Net Framework Culture Names for Windows Vista
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over 6 years ago
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Shawn Steele - MSFT
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We've changed the culture names for the .Net Framework in Windows Vista to match the locale names used in Vista, which were changed to be more like the IETF standard names. Previously .Net Framework 2.0 culture names looked like "language"-"country" or...
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