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It has been over three years (in Every character has a story #4: U+feff (alternate title: UTF-8 is the BOM, dude!) ) that I mentioned in an offhand manner about Notepad "Application is perhaps an overstatement; its just an uber-wrapper for a Win32 EDIT Read More...
The other day, Wayne Shu asked: Hello Michael: I have visited your blog, and know that you are an expert in Windows Uniscribe, here I have some questions about Uniscribe to ask you. now I am using Uniscribe to do a program to generate glyphs from a arbitrary Read More...
I am going straight to hell for the title on this one, I know it.... The question, asked on a discussion list primarily concerned with WinForms, went something like this: I am facing some issue regarding showing right Japanese chars. It get truncated Read More...
It was like that scene out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the one about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch : Particularly important is the counting to three after the pulling of the triggering pin (the surmounted cross), complicated by King Arthur's Read More...
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...
So over in the Suggestion Box, typography comrade Josh asked: I wonder if you could explore a bit of font naming history and discuss the "Ming LiU" font(s) that is included with Windows. Notice the uppercase 'U' at the end of "LiU"...it is not "Liu", Read More...
After reading It isn't really RED versus GREEN , Cheong asked: I've searched for a while in charmap.exe and yet to find a font that'll display these characters in WinXP. That brings me to a question: Is there a font that ships with Windows (not necessarily Read More...
Earlier today, tshirk (probably not his real name?) asked via the Contact link: Okay, I'm sorry. This is a support question. I suck. I'm just asking if you've ever heard of applications that use Marlett (super secret Windows system symbol font) being Read More...
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...
Looking back at the my blog Ready... set... Reboot Redux, part Deux! , in order tp get the link to help answer someone's question, I realized something very important. That blog does not give the solution, it really only states the problem. A problem Read More...
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...
Now lots of people have already been talking about cool changes to fonts in Windows 7, such as blogs like Long Zheng's Improvements to fonts in Windows 7 , which talk about some of the long-awaited updates to the Fonts folder that will make so much of Read More...
The question from the other day from Patrick was: I have a class defined as public class Foo { private string name = "a\r\nb\r\nc"; public string Name { get { return this.name; } set { this.name = value; } } } When I push object foo:Foo into a property Read More...
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...
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...
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