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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

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

The whole truth about MB_PRECOMPOSED and MB_COMPOSITE

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I'd have skipped this med for sure). I am not even on the team Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Double Bite Character Set

It was just this last Sunday that long time reader Yuhong Bao wrote over in the Suggestion Box: BTW, someone mistyped DBCS as Double Bite Character Sets: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e56788b-32e8-459d-b9c9-b9155a4836b4 I was Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Someone please detect if there's a BOM before the plane takes off!

One can really never get enough of puns about the BOM (Byte Order Mark) and TSA. And when I say one, I mean I. :-) Just think back to blogs like Don't sneak a BOM in on someone who promises to ignore free space or Everyone seems averse to the BOM these Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Does your font lie? Its dishonety may come home to roost....

Regular reader Pavanaja U B asked over in the Suggestion Box: In Word 2003 and prior, there was an option "not to display the font name in that font". This was very useful while using hacked non-English TTF fonts which were using the ASCII codes meant Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Complex class designs begat unintuitive interactions begat unexpected results begat a blog

Frank's question is one any reasonable person could have: So, why is XmlWriter producing a document with encoding = UTF16 when I specify UTF8 ? static void Main(string[] args) { XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings(); xws.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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 | 6 Comments

Frost's The Form Not Taken

Over in the Suggestion Box, Aaron asked: Hi again - question about one of your favorite codepages - 1258 (Vietnamese) and combining diacritics in regards to Unicode character U+1EB7 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND DOT BELOW - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1eb7/index.htm) Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 7: If it makes the SQL Server columns too small then it made the Oracle columns either too smallER or too smallEST

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 Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Azeri serious bug for non-Unicode SQL Server columns?

So it all started in a conversation with some of the folks from the SQL Server team when I was at PASS. What did they expect? Send 600 Microsoft employees to an event and you are bound to run into some of them just in the act of walking around! They were Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 6: An exercise left for whoever needs some exercise

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, November 24, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #5 of ?? (sometimes it is phase 3 that is ????)

Warning: although slightly technical, this blog is mostly non-technical, and/or technical about stuff related to the iBOT. If the technical issues related to SQL Server and/or PASS interest you then they will probably show up in future blogs ... Prior Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 11 Comments

Apocalypse Font (aka Guess they must have picked the wrong eight characters.)

The title of this blog is an allusion to Coppola's Apocalypse Now , and eventually I'll be quoting a bit of the Herr-provided narration (those are the pieces Martin Sheen read)... It all started with a seemingly innocent question the other day. It went Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

In or out of the default, no way to win, really

Microsoft tends to get criticized, no matter what they (by which I mean we) do. They (by which I mean customers) hate that the default install the additional IME, keyboard, font, and code page files(ref: What isn't in the default install for NLS ). But Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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