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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.

I have a great love of my work, ~~delusions~~notions of linguistic aptitude, a knack for reading my own MRIs, and a love of San Pellegrino Limonata.

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May 2009 - Posts

"Size matters, and at 8.25, yours simply isn't big enough," she said....

I am going straight to hell for the title on this one, I know it.... The question, asked on a discussion list primarily concerned with WinForms, went something like this: I am facing some issue regarding showing right Japanese chars. It get truncated Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Filed under: Locales/Cultures, Int'l Programming, Fonts/Typography, LIP/MUI

The whole truth about MB_PRECOMPOSED and MB_COMPOSITE

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I'd have skipped this med for sure). I am not even on the team Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Filed under: Unicode/standards, Encoding/Codepages, Int'l Programming, Unicode Lame List

The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts based on the way I think things are going. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I'd have skipped this Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Filed under: Keyboards, Locales/Cultures, Linguistic, Int'l Programming

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