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Language detection and system settings, part 1
Once upon a time, a customer got in touch with us about a font rendering problem, where instead of seeing the characters he expected to see inside his applications, he saw question marks. - What’s your system locale? we asked. - I’m in Cleveland, he said, Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:07 PM by KieranS | 0 Comments

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Language detection, script detection, and how they differ.
Two of the first services out of the gate for ELS are language detection and script detection, both of which are available in the PDC build of Windows 7. Both of these are already being used by different components in different ways and I thought it might Read More...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 5:49 PM by KieranS | 1 Comments

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What's new for you in Windows 7: Extended Linguistic Services
Now that you've been able to go check out our PDC talk (online here ), I'm excited to introduce you and this blog to ELS, our next big set of globalization support for developers! From our PDC Developer Guide: Extended Linguistic Services (ELS) is a new Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:28 PM by KieranS | 1 Comments

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