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I am a Developer on the International Fundamentals team at Microsoft. I work on making connections with developers both inside and outside of Microsoft to help make sure that they are making full use of the internationalization features that both Windows and the .NET Framework provide.

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April 2009 - Posts

Two wrongs don't make a right, but two lefts can take a good whack at it

When you were growing up, you might have had adults try to indoctrinate you with pithy biscuits of nothingness like Two wrongs don't make a right. Maybe it was just be, but nonsense like that used to just annoy me. Thankfully comedians would add to it, Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Filed under: Locales/Cultures, Linguistic, Unicode/standards, Int'l Programming, Unicode Lame List

On intentional gaps in calendar lists

Developer colleague Dmitri asked me: Hi Michael, I noticed the MSDN documentation for the calendar IDs claims that Note The gap in numbering between the identifiers CAL_GREGORIAN_XLIT_FRENCH and CAL_UMALQURA is intentional. The designator for CAL_UMALQURA Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Filed under: Locales/Cultures, Int'l Programming

A chess problem begging for a solution...

A regular reader gave me an interesting problem, from a book. If that kind of puzzle is not your thing feel free to ignore.... Here is the text, from a book, that describes the setup for the problem: Behind them in the billiard room a man's voice grumbled, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Filed under: Potpourri

Double Bite Character Set

It was just this last Sunday that long time reader Yuhong Bao wrote over in the Suggestion Box: BTW, someone mistyped DBCS as Double Bite Character Sets: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e56788b-32e8-459d-b9c9-b9155a4836b4 I was Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Filed under: Linguistic, Encoding/Codepages, Int'l Programming

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