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November 2004 - Posts

They ask me "why is my Korean text in random order?"

I get this question on a regular basis -- people wonder if I know that Korean shows up in a random order. People expect this to be the case when the Korean LCID (0x0412, or 1042 in decimal) is not passed, but when it is they expect things to be in some Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:57 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 17 Comments

Normalization and Microsoft -- whats the story?

This is a word that has been way too overloaded. To date I have heard of four specific uses since I have come to Microsoft: It is used by some folks on the SQL Server team when they talk about string comparisons It is used by the NLS collation APIs for Read More...
Posted Monday, November 29, 2004 2:51 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Microsoft does not use the Unicode Collation Algorithm

Robert A. Heinlein told a story in his book Expanded Universe back in 1980 (bear with me, I promise I'll be making a point eventually): A few years ago, I was visited by an astronomer, quite young and brilliant. He claimed to be a long-time reader of Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 2:10 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Some keyboarding terms

This posting will try to clear up some of the problems in documentation and info regading keyboards, since there is plenty left in those things to be confusing and there is no need to throw bewildering terms into the mix. Future posts will build on this Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 1:08 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments
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'Evil date parsing', Parse, and ParseExact

'Evil date parsing' has quite an ignoble history. Rooted in COM (which was itself rooted to older versions of Visual Basic), converions from string to date had the simple job of making a string into a date, no matter what the cost. The benefits are obvious, Read More...
Posted Friday, November 26, 2004 10:30 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments
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Using MSLU with ATL/WTL

If you are using the Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems in a project that uses ATL or WTL, there are some things you need to do to make it work. Avoid the _ATL_MIN_CRT macro -- this macro appears to be incompatible with MSLU. Problems Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:29 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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If you are using MFC 6.0 or 7.0 and you want to use MSLU...

If you are using the Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems and the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), there are a few things you need to know about! There are two bugs in MFC 6.0 that you will have to fix and rebuild (both bugs are Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:28 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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