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Why Bengali keyboards can't be found on XP 64 bit

One of the interesting benefits of reading this blog is that it can provide answers to questions that you run across later. For example, I got mail the other day that was forwarding a question from someone: A friend was happily using the Bengali language Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Who bells the cat when it comes to glyph substitution?

Over in the Suggestion Box, AJB asked: I am curious about the division of labor between Uniscribe (or any other rendering\layout engine) and the OpenType font, with regards to glyph substitution. I've been poking around parsing the OpenType font data Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

The font folder, like the party, never seems to get smaller

Alvin asked (in the Suggestion Box after reading this blog that listed the fonts in Vista): ...could you suggest a list of fonts that can be safely removed in Windows Vista? Or in other words, what are the system fonts in Windows vista that cannot be Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

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

You've heard of C* fonts? How about G* fonts? :-)

Rutger asked over in the Suggestion Box: I was digging around in my fonts page, after converting our font support to logical font support (to stay in line with the java world). And I fond 4 fonts that seem to have a special meaning Global SansSerif Global Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:11 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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Uncheck != uninstall (even in SP3 or SP* for that matter)

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

The pros and cons of context, aka CONTEXT is a four-letter-word

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Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 6:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Alphabetically inappropriate emergencies

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Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

The importance of Tagalog to Burmese, aka "Of course I'd lie to you, I'm a font!"

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Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

[Breakfast ]embed at first [Silver]light[ 2.0]?

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Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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Fight the Future? (#10 of ??), aka Looks like I wasn't mistaken

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

Fight the Future? (#8 of ??), aka The Bug(s) Spotted, aka Design flaws are worse than bugs

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Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Fight the Future? (#7 of ??), aka From Oliver Twist Sans -- One Font, Font For Sale

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Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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Fight the Future? (#6 of ??), aka If we don't need it yet can we say it is a last resort?

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Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Fight the Future? (#4 of ??), aka Unicode 5.1 Unleashed!

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Posted Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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