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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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WinZip, the [long awaited] Unicode edition!!!

I have talked about WinZip and Zip in the past, in particular their odd relationship with Unicode, in blogs like: Zipping up Unicode file names Unicode? Zip don't need no stinking Unicode! Sometimes, you have to keep it in ASCII Zipping up Unicode file Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Filed under: Unicode/standards, Encoding/Codepages

The vector of this spam is [apparently] indeterminate

I have talked in the past about my feelings regarding the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in blogs such as The torrents of U+fffd (aka When security and conformance trump compatibility and reality) . And I have even mentioned in the A less intelligent strain of Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

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

On the popularity of Unicode: percentages are not raw numbers

There has been a lot of recent buzz based on the Moving to Unicode 5.1 post in the googleblog written by Mark Davis. Enough that people keep sending me email asking if I had seen it, much of that traffic being there because I haven't blogged about it Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Filed under: Unicode/standards, Encoding/Codepages

In hindsight, they may have BEST FIT these files where the sun never shines

Recently while paying attention to The Unicode List I was once again reminded why I don't pay more attention to The Unicode List . :-) Specifically it was a thread started by Andreas Prilop: I refer to http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Filed under: Unicode/standards, Encoding/Codepages, Unicode Lame List

More things that don't work for locales in the CRT

They say that you could put just the word Playboy or Hugh Hefner or a picture of the Playboy Bunny on an envelope and if the postage is right then it will make its way to the mansion. It is funny to imagine that kind of fuzzy matching at work, and not Read More...

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

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

Why WC2MB needs a CP, chaver sheli!

Dmitry asked via the Contact link: Hello Michael! As far as I understand, some wide char can be in only one of Unicode subranges listed e.g. at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776439(VS.85).aspx , so its value determines its code page. But Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Filed under: Locales/Cultures, Unicode/standards, Encoding/Codepages, Int'l Programming, Fonts/Typography

Uncheck != uninstall (even in SP3 or SP* for that matter)

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.... Via Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Filed under: Locales/Cultures, Encoding/Codepages, Fonts/Typography, Unicode Lame List