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The two most important components of letting go and moving on are (1) letting go and (2) moving on

It was Friday afternoon when Santhosh (Santhosh Pillai, aka THE Santhosh, the guy who helped us with the collation story for Malayalam way back when) was asking a question. The question was: Hi: Is there an updated version of this page http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdinmal.htm Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Fastest? Perhaps. Wrongest? Certainly!

The question was deceptively simple: Hi, I used all three and I find ToLower() to be fastest .But the Msdn article says that ToLowerInvariant should be faster. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.tolowerinvariant(VS.85).aspx . Which Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

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

Turkish Character in Directory Name Hung Windows NT 3.5, aka small enough to be internationally stupid

The other day I was looking for something. On the Internet. You know how that goes, I'm sure. I didn't find it, though I know it is out there. You probably know how that goes too. I tried with both Google and Bing. Now I'm not a religious nut about either Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:41 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

On the nonubiquitousness of Ü

So, in a quick follow-up to Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü! from the other day, the investigation into the cause has happened: ok, what happens is that MFC is actually throwing an exception, because _mbsupr_s() does return EILSEQ. The crash Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:29 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

I know I'll Never say Never... again, at least

So, thinking about consequences of the CASING piece of Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 2) . And ignoring that we didn't follow my recommendation, since I've covered that, for now. Let's look at what we Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 2)

You may want to start with Part 1 of this series.... Okay, here we go. Last time some of the font stuff was covered. It is nice when letters are given the opportunity to look good. In the end, what can often be more important than how something looks Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Every character has a story #32: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 1)

Previous blogs about this letter: September 2005: Every character has a story #15: CAPITAL SHARP S (not encoded) May 2007: Every character has a story #26: CAPITAL SHARP S (might be encoded?) August 2007: Every character has a story #28: U+1e9e (CAPITAL Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

In search of the Swedish Tipping Point....

By necessity, my blogs are often about something on the micro scale -- one customer report, one phenomenon that interests me, one event, one bug, one concert, one wheelchair, one function. Even the occasional groupings of these things are quite small. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

The road to hell is paved with attempts at being compatible

In one of the very first blogs I wrote, I pointed out that Microsoft does not use the Unicode Collation Algorithm . Believe it or not, at the time some people actually asked me whether I thought I might get in trouble for that blog. Looking at it now Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Where's Waldo^H^H^H^H^HMichael? (aka It probably wasn't worth the wait and yet you waited!)

It has been several weeks since my last blog in/on this Blog. If you are a regular reader, you may have noticed this already, though one of the downsides of the whole RSS/subscription model is that for the most part it is only the act of doing something Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

How are the Danes doing it?

WARNING: This blog has nothing whatsoever ¹ do with Nordic sex. Regular reader Santhosh Pillai had a question not too long ago that I found to be rather kick ass and cool, professionally speaking. It was: Hi, I am trying to figure out how these characters Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Whither ICU.NET? I don't see it thither...

In the past 10 days I have had four people ask me the same question. Here is one if the most recent ones: Hi Michael, One of my friends was asking if there is an ICU for .NET. icu4c-4_0-Win32-msvc8.zip that he got from http://www.icu-project.org/download/4.0.html Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Sorting "Collate" all out

It was recently suggested to me that the terms COLLATION and COLLATE are confusing to people. Not people over here, I'd guess. And probably not so much the people who work in SQL Server or Access or really any database program -- anyone who places so Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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