I'm not a Klingon ( )

People have asked me where to get a pIqaD font to use with Bing's Klingon Translator http://www.bing.com/translator/?from=en&to=tlh-qon&text=Hello%20Earth,%20I%20made%20the%20font That's actually a font I made. (I'm not a font designer, so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

I just ran into a bug with SetLocaleInfo() use, and it pretty much reminded me that SetLocaleInfo() stinks. Michael said it years ago and it's still true. The only thing it's useful for is a "Regional and Language Options" type app, and there's already...

Some Zune users ran into a strange problem http://forums.zune.net/2/3/518796/ShowPost.aspx and it seems like the Nation Value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Geo isn't there on some Windows XP machines. That seems really wierd to me because...

Disclaimer: I'm not an English teacher (that's my mom), so I'm sure my description of title casing in English probably has exceptions/variations. Title casing has an interesting history in computer programming. Programmers like to use CamelCase to...

When you use the Microsoft Locale Builder tool to build a custom locale, it asks for a lot of fields. Two may not be obvious: The Two Letter ISO Language name is permitted to be 3 letters for locales that don't have a 2 letter code (eg: haw for Hawaiian...

In Cheating To Install Custom Cultures , I mentioned how to add the custom cultures without using CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder.Register(). Should you have any problems with a custom culture / locale and want to uninstall it but are having difficulty with...

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...

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...

First of all, as I always suggest, Use Unicode when practical :) Then you don't run into these kinds of problems. The "thing" to remember about code pages in general is that they were an early way to get characters to display in a readable way on CRT...

MSDN has this new nifty Code Gallery place for samples and the like, so I stuck my custom locale examples there at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CustomLocales I added a few more since posting them to my blog here.

http://www.languagegeek.com/ says it is dedicated to the promotion of Native North American languages. A coworker ran into this site while she was trying to learn more about the Lakota language (and she made a Lakota custom locale too! :) I don't know...

The IETF "Language Tag Registry Update" working group has noted that lots of data is tagged as "zh-Hant", regardless of whether or not it is pronounced as Cantonese or Manderin. For video and audio however, this doesn't allow a fine enough distinction...

With Windows Vista and Microsoft .Net 2.0 (MS07-040 security patch) and 3.0+, we've started to use the IETF standard "zh-Hans", and "zh-Hant" names for Chinese simplified and traditional. In windows the zh-CHS/zh-CHT names were never used because the...

In general its a good idea to allow users to choose appropriate settings, but being able to adjust the default user account settings to provide users with an appropriate default locale is often helpful. Also one cannot easily change the system account...