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İn tıtlıng thıs ınclusıon ın re: the ınterests of Turkısh İSVs, am İ just tryıng to buıld İ's and ı's ınto the tıtle of thıs daıly contrıbutıon to SİAO (SıaO), amıgo?

It is a commonly reported issue in Windows and many components that run upon it, a recent one can be seen on the Connect site, here : Description : There is a conversion problem in the c/c++ runtime library. Turkish characters ı/I and i/İ are converted Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Four exceptions to prove the rule

As a general rule, once a sort has been added to Windows, it cannot ever be removed. But you have probably heard the expression that every rule has an exception, right? Well this rule is so freaking important that it has four exceptions! They are: #1: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Much ado about zero, aka These zeroes won't ever amount to anything

The weirdness is easily noted if you try the following code in both .NET <= 1.1 and .NET >= 2.0: static void Main(string[] args) { Decimal val1 = 0m; Decimal val2 = 0.0m; Decimal val3 = 0.00m; Decimal val4 = 1m; Decimal val5 = 1.0m; Decimal val6 Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:11 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Vowel DISharmony?, aka The case of the missing dot

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... Randy Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Kind of ironic how Germany seems so okay with Capital *Letter* punishment, huh?

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Note that this post is entirely offtopic and if that kind of thing bothers you then you re invited to get out right now.... Over in the Suggestion Box, mpz asked: Suggestion: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

Fight the Future? (#11 of ??), aka Microsoft is giving this character nada weight but lotsa importance

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... There Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Fight the Future? (#10 of ??), aka Looks like I wasn't mistaken

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... Over Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Fight the Future? (#4 of ??), aka Unicode 5.1 Unleashed!

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... Here Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

The disunification of Norwegian and Danish sorting ( SQL Server 2008 Edition!)

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! The story behind today's blog post started in Why do we call w 'double u' -- doesn't it look more like a 'double v'? , where I talked about the Swedish Academy's change Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Vietnamese still ain't quite right

Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! You may have read Vietnamese is a complex language on Windows , which discusses some fixes that were put in for Vietnamese in Vista. The nature of the bug and the fixes that were Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Vowel "harmony", enforced by political interests?

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! A few years back, I was chatting with Thomas Milo of DecoType, I believe at an Internationalization and Unicode Conference. Now Tom has rather unique background in Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

If we sorted Bopomofo like we do Pinyin, would it still be considered "Traditional" Chinese?

Please read disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! Pronunciation based sorting for Traditional Chinese is commonly requested from people, and the requests fall within two broad categories: Cantonese pronunciations -- Read More...
Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

On changing the world, or at least the way people order things in it

Please read disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! You may (if you are a regular reader) have read Predictably (in retrospect), aka Where Wild^H^H^Hindows-Only Things Are, aka SHORT [on ]TIME for a LONG TIME from back Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

More than one kind of "alphabetical" order

Please read disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! You may remember seeing Consistency in the Windows Shell is not overrated; it's just underobserved! if you are a regular reader (it was just over a week ago!). In that Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Some armchair root cause analysis of the suckage of lstrcmpi

Please read the disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! So the other day Stephan T. Lavavej (also known by his initials, STL , which also happens to be what he works on!) came by and we chatted for a bit about development Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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