I'm not a Klingon ( )

Recently Peter Constable and I gave a presentation on Windows Language Support, which I've attached in the next post . Poornima Priyadarshini and I also gave a presentation in Globalization in Silverlight, which I've attached here.

For my presentation of globalization of Silverlight at the Unicode Conference I wanted to make a quick Silverlight demo application that would show at least a little bit of globalization and not be too hard to write. My first choice was to find an existing...

I was asked how a string can match a substring of another string, yet StartsWith can return false? For example: string str = "Mu\x0308nchen"; string find = "Mu"; Console.WriteLine("Substring: " + (str.Substring(0,2) == find)); Console.WriteLine("StartsWith...

Countries sometimes change which currency symbol they're using. This is most obvious for countries using the Euro (wikipedia currently says those are currently: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta...

Recently Peter Constable and I gave a presentation on Windows Language Support, which I've attached here. Poornima Priyadarshini and I also gave a presentation in Globalization in Silverlight, which I've attached in the previous post . Ironically...

This isn't really related to anything I talk about, but I thought that Microsoft Research's World Wide Telescope is pretty fun: http://worldwidetelescope.org . This is a free program you can install and then it lets you zoom in on celestial objects...

As I've said before, I encourage "Using Unicode" for data. So I've gone to the Unicode conference ( http://www.unicode.org ) to give some presentations and learn some interesting stuff about characters and scripts and languages and other international...

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