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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

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

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

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

No Welsh puns here. Ever. Not even a little one. Not at all...

I have the feeling that certain questions are going to keep getting asked. Some in person, like "What's up with your facebook profile pictures?" Or others via email, like the one about people not feeling like a code page selection is right for a particular Read More...
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

On not looking at Uyghur through a Chinese prism

I just remembered that I have a Suggestion Box! In it, Abdusalem asked: Hi Michael, I would like to ask/or suggest as a topic something about the Uyghur (PRC) locale in Windows 7. This is a new locale that has been supported by Windows since Windows Vista Read More...
Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Header files are not retarded, aka What the @#%&* is _O_WTEXT?

There was a recent [internal] discussion thread where someone was asking about what was the best way to output localized text to the console. After a bit of thread drift, STL pointed out that blog post ( Conventional wisdom is retarded, aka What the @#%&* Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 7:01 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

16 is not to 64 as 8 (either 8) is to 16....

So McDowell asked in a comment: Apologies if this is the wrong place, or this has come up before, but does 64bit Windows sound the death knell for OEM code pages on the console? I haven't run a 64-bit version of Windows, so I can't check if I'm just behind Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 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

Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü!

So the other day a colleague over in C++-ville forwarded a bug report he was looking at, one he wanted my thoughts about. It went something like this: Repro Steps: + Change language in Control Panel under "Regional an Language Options" tab "Advanced" Read More...
Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

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
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