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September 2009 - Posts

Can I show the whole string or can't I?

Jim's question from a few weeks ago was: I’m being given a Unicode string and I need to determine if it will render cleanly using the system font (not displaying any blocks or “non-supported-glyph” symbols). I’ve tried using ScriptGetCMap() and GetGlyphIndices(), Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

Search engines still don't know what it is, or more to the point where it's @

I do try my best know what it is, and where it's at, as this makes me seem more in touch with things, you know? The other day, Joe asked: A friend of mine asked me the following question and I don't know, so I thought I'd see if anyone in here had an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

If it ain't a soup question, keep it the hell out of the room

The other day, in "What kind of soup?" is not exactly a soup question, is it? , I mentioned that I might have a technical example of the issue of Not exactly a soup question, is it? so think of this blog as me finally getting around to doing that. It Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

From KLID to GUID (aka KLIDoral stimulation, it feels GUID)

Apologies for the title (note to self: never author blog titles under the influence to try to appear as a cunning linguist!) So it was just the other day that Yong asked: Ok, so it looks like we got a regression (or a design change) on Vista/Windows 7 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

What is impossible for Microsoft can be simply undesireable for Unicode

Sometimes an implementation makes a certain feature impossible. Like the way Microsoft does collation, in particular the way its DEFAULT table is implemented (a flat DWORD table for everything 0x0000 to 0xFFFF) means that you can't ever have compressions Read More...
Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Vegas as the safe bet

Disclaimer: I am not an expert or even an inspired amateur in the financial world, and am not claiming to be here. I was thinking about Las Vegas the other day. Not the actual Las Vegas but the one from Oceans 11, which somehow seemed more real than the Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:51 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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Microsoft is a company in Redmond, WA, in the USA

Microsoft is a company based in Redmond, Washington, in the United States of America. Yes it is a world wide company. Yes almost 60% of its products are sold to customers who are not in the US. Yes there are development centers around the world and in Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 13 Comments

On not being in Germany in October

Regular reader Jan Kučera asked me via the contact link: Hello Michael, first time using this contact form, I hope I have chosen the most appropriate way for my question. :-) I would like to ask if you have any plans attending or speaking at the Tamil Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

"What kind of soup?" is not exactly a soup question, is it?

It started with an expression. One I got from a movie. The name of the movie was Finding Forrester . This is a movie I liked a lot, though this is about one thing in particular. The relevant dialog from the movie, between William Forrester (Sean Connery) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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When conversions ignore the errors...

The other day I was sent mail about a Connect bug. This Connect bug, in fact. The title alone ( mbstowcs_s does not return an error when the current code page does not support all the characters in mbstr ) might suggest what is going on to some of you Read More...
Posted Friday, September 04, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

The Funk is no longer facile (aka George Clinton @ ShowBox Sodo)

It was supposed to be a magical night. I was given tickets for a show by the funk master George Clinton down at the Seattle Showbox. My musical tastes often confuse and occasionally frighten people, but in this case whether one is thinking about Parliament Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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How ConvertDefaultLocale sorta broke backward compatibility in Windows 7, and why

Over in the Suggestion Box, Aaron asked: Michael, We noticed a problematic breaking change between Windows 7 and previous OS's around ConvertDefaultLocale and the Spanish LCIDs LCID lcid1 = ConvertDefaultLocale(PRIMARYLANGID(1034)); LCID lcid2 = ConvertDefaultLocale(PRIMARYLANGID(3082)); Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

For language settings, Walmart ain't all that; 7-Eleven is what gets it done!

The question from Alex Ewing was: Hi Michael, I've read a number of your posts regarding the automated installation of supplemental language support on Windows XP but I have a question. I can't seem to get the same exact languages by using my unattend.txt Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
 
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