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June 2009 - Posts

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 11: Turning it up to Eleven!

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Where do you want to go today^H^H^Hmorrow with MUI?

I have blogged about MUI (Multilingual User Interface) in Windows in the past. In particular (via blogs such as MUI is like your heartbeat; it's important and useful, whether you know about it or not ) I have discussed one of the principal design limitations: Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

EZ fwide[R]? It ain't all that. Roll it up and smoke it, you won't get very high....

Conformance to standards seems to be a pretty big deal these days in many different parts of Microsoft. Not all, mind you -- that is something I know about through both law of averages (there are a lot of groups at Microsoft!) and also some specific knowledge Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Those keys aren't going to be extended; they're dead!

Rimas Kudelis asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi Michael, I was wondering if you know if there are any plans to extend the Windows keyboard driver in future? In particular, I'm interested about the limitations related to dead keys. Back in 2006 (in Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

ทำไห้เผ็ดมาก ("Make it very spicy", with my crappy attempt at a Thai accent)

I love my Thai food very spicy. I don't have the same issues that Margaret Cho has with spicy food (ref: her Blog , in particular The Hotness ), though I think that is because my body does not object to the food quite as strongly, or as loudly! Anyway, Read More...
Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 6:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

No disassemble Number 5!

Very very offtopic!!! The question I got recently was simple enough: Michael, I googled iBot air travel and found your blog. So you actually flew with your iBot and they didn't dismantle it?? My husband got one last summer, and has been driving back and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 10: Variation[ Selector] on a theme...

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

When keeping things on a level Plane[ 1] doesn't work anymore

It has been over three years (in Every character has a story #4: U+feff (alternate title: UTF-8 is the BOM, dude!) ) that I mentioned in an offhand manner about Notepad "Application is perhaps an overstatement; its just an uber-wrapper for a Win32 EDIT Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Text can sometimes just look wrong when it seems like it shouldn't. Why?

The other day, Wayne Shu asked: Hello Michael: I have visited your blog, and know that you are an expert in Windows Uniscribe, here I have some questions about Uniscribe to ask you. now I am using Uniscribe to do a program to generate glyphs from a arbitrary Read More...
Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Almost winning an award can be pretty damn stressful!

A few days ago, and I'm really pleased about this, the Keyboard Layout Creator was up for a Microsoft Engineering Excellence award. It was funny, at the ceremony I was talking to one if the staff people, mentioning that we were up for an award and asking Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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I've got [SCS]U under my skin....

Apologies to Frank for the title! Just last night old friend and compadre from the Unicode days¹ Doug Ewell asked me Hey Michael, This should be an easy question, but I can't find anything about how to do this in C#. (I know, should have used Live or Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
 
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