I'm not a Klingon ( )

Encoding, Code Page and Character Set are often used interchangeably, even when that isn't strictly correct. There are some distinctions though: Characters are usually thought of as the smallest element of writing that has a meaning. It could be a punctuation...

Lots of people ask this question, replacing Latin with their favorite language. http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp might give a hint as to the size of the general problem. There are about 6800 known languages, in many more language/country combinations...

Here’s an example of how to create a custom culture in Whidbey. Its changed a bit from earlier versions, so this code is based on Beta 2 behavior. This should be what you see in RTM. J This sample creates a custom culture with the name “en-US-shawn”,...

People keep asking questions like “How do I get Latin cultures in .Net?” Well, in Whidbey we’re adding Custom Cultures. A custom culture is a culture that is created and installed on the system by a user with admin privileges. Once installed custom cultures...

I’ve divided this into a few parts: About IDN IDN & Security Homograph Thoughts Conclusion About IDN: My interest in IDN is that I’m the SDE for the System.Globalization.IdnMapping class in Whidbey . I also think its pretty nifty for the users in...

The behavior of Encoding.GetMaxByteCount() changed somewhat between .Net version 1.0/1.1 and version 2.0 (Whidbey). The reason for this change is partially because GetMaxByteCount() didn't always return the worst-case byte count, and also because the...

I don't plan to blog very often, but I will try to address lots of the issues and questions that often arise as I go about my work. I don’t mind comments or pointing out errors. In those cases I’ll probably fix any inaccuracies in my posts. I may remove...