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The last several months have been packed with planning our next set of features in the international space -- talking to customers about what they need and what they want, looking at the teams we have and seeing where our skills are up to the challenges
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Yes, it's been a while. Since I've last blogged, we've shipped Vista and I've gone on a long vacation to Hawaii. Personally I find both of these things very exciting. It's understandable if you care more about the first than the second. :) But I'm back
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A few days ago, in Oh, the enumeration! , I wrote about some changes to the enumeration of our Spanish Traditional sort locale that would be new for Vista. What I wrote is that callers to EnumSystemLocales would have to pass the LCID_ALTERNATE_SORTS flag
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Today someone asked me whether there is anywhere on the internet that customers can find the Vista locale list. Several of us have blogged about custom locales and the ways in which customers might use them, but I wanted to post the full list of built-in
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Note (10/3/06): This post contains outdated content. For the correction, please see the update in Oh, the enumeration? Part two. If you use EnumSystemLocales(), one thing you may have noticed in Vista is that the Spanish Traditional sort locale (040a)
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Back in the day, in a post entitled What's in a name? , I blogged about some changes to NLS identifiers that we made in order to better meet the expectations of customers accustomed to the IETF standard. In that post, I wrote: One thing to keep in mind
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If you're going to use the Locale Builder tool to create a custom locale, you have a couple of options: You can create a brand new locale for a language-region combination that is not currently supported by Microsoft, or you can replace a locale that
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One of the disappointing things about the end of a product cycle is that it's too late to add into this version all the cool new customer requests that we get. (Of course, the flip side of this is that one of the great things about new product cycles
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For everything you ever wanted to know about Windows globalization and localization, or at least for one or two things, you might like to check out this Channel 9 interview. It features Michael Kaplan , whose blog you may know; Jeff Allen, our director
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Out with the LCIDs, in with the string-based identifiers! Well, mostly. You can still use LCIDs to retrieve data for Windows locales, as before. But as I've mentioned here previously, we've also introduced string-based identifiers and associated APIs
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Many of our Windows Vista beta testers contact us excited to be test-driving the beta but wondering what to look for. I thought it might be nice to share here the test cases that we give interested beta testers. If you try these test cases and you have
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A couple of days ago I posted about the Microsoft Locale Builder. But what about the locales that we're adding new for Vista? A few interesting facts: When Vista ships, it will include locale support for over 130 languages built in as part of Windows
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Michael Kaplan has blogged quite a bit about our release of the Microsoft Locale Builder Beta , the final version of which is planned for use on Vista when it ships. We're pretty excited about the Locale Builder here for a whole bunch of reasons. Like
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