Martin recently asked what the best way to roll his own encoding in .Net 2.0, in particular can you override Encoding/Encoder/Decoder, or should he write his own StreamWriter. #1 is, of course, to use Unicode :), but apparently Martin doesn't have...

These are the "ANSI" code pages that could be used by CP_ACP. Other code pages should not appear as "ANSI" code pages in Windows. 874 windows-874 ANSI/OEM Thai (same as 28605); Thai (Windows) 932 shift_jis ANSI/OEM Japanese;...

You can use a RegionInfo() object with a region name in the constructor, like "US", however that doesn't always provide appropriate results. The RegionInfo properties, such as DisplayName for example, depend on the language and culture being used. So...

I just discovered that VBScript has a SetLocale() function that apparently is backed by a static list of locale names, which means that its locale names aren't consistent with the list supported in Vista. Fortunatly SetLocale(0) gets you the current...

[Update: I now have a couple that use IDN TLDs] http://президент.рф/ http://موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر/ A colleague gave me some URLs to use for testing IDN. I don't vouch for any of these sites, and some are obvious ads and some may be inappropriate...

I ran into an interesting problem with a Vista sidebar calendar gadget. It seems that it is not exactly trivial to find out interesting NLS data like localized month names, first day of week, etc. from JScript. Eventually I found a workaround for some...

Recently I've seen a spate of bugs involving client-server web applications related to the user locale. Windows Vista has added a ton of locales that weren't there in XP or Server 2003 or Microsoft.Net v2.0. Additionally users can create and use their...