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The two most important components of letting go and moving on are (1) letting go and (2) moving on

It was Friday afternoon when Santhosh (Santhosh Pillai, aka THE Santhosh, the guy who helped us with the collation story for Malayalam way back when) was asking a question. The question was: Hi: Is there an updated version of this page http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdinmal.htm Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Can I show the whole string or can't I?

Jim's question from a few weeks ago was: I’m being given a Unicode string and I need to determine if it will render cleanly using the system font (not displaying any blocks or “non-supported-glyph” symbols). I’ve tried using ScriptGetCMap() and GetGlyphIndices(), Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

Search engines still don't know what it is, or more to the point where it's @

I do try my best know what it is, and where it's at, as this makes me seem more in touch with things, you know? The other day, Joe asked: A friend of mine asked me the following question and I don't know, so I thought I'd see if anyone in here had an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

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

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

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

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

The Letter Police can EAT MY SHORTS!

Regular reader from way back (and perhaps still regular reader!) Jan Kučera asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi again... I hope there are more people going to suggest a topic or place a question, otherwise I would feel a bit... alone. Maybe you should Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

When keeping things on a level Plane[ 1] doesn't work anymore

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...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Text can sometimes just look wrong when it seems like it shouldn't. Why?

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...
Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

"Size matters, and at 8.25, yours simply isn't big enough," she said....

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...
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Counting to four with the Holy Hand Grenade of Typography

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...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments
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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

MingLiU to me and you (and Ming Light to the people most likely to use it)

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...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Internet Explorer and Windows might not be optimized for this Blog

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...
Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments
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