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What happens when you involve an unenabled Uniscribe with vertical text, given that Uniscribe doesn't handle vertical text?

So I got email from a developer colleague the other day. It was that same developer who had previously impressed me -- as described in Expertise isn't always everything (aka When the one who is learning teaches us something important) -- and kept me from Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

İn tıtlıng thıs ınclusıon ın re: the ınterests of Turkısh İSVs, am İ just tryıng to buıld İ's and ı's ınto the tıtle of thıs daıly contrıbutıon to SİAO (SıaO), amıgo?

It is a commonly reported issue in Windows and many components that run upon it, a recent one can be seen on the Connect site, here : Description : There is a conversion problem in the c/c++ runtime library. Turkish characters ı/I and i/İ are converted Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

The vector of this spam is [apparently] indeterminate

I have talked in the past about my feelings regarding the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in blogs such as The torrents of U+fffd (aka When security and conformance trump compatibility and reality) . And I have even mentioned in the A less intelligent strain of Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

It is okay to not be in favor of termination

No, this is not a post about abortion. I am talking about NULL termination, a way to end strings that is legal in all fifty states and that is widely used by software that is in regular use by people all over the world irregardless of their views about Read More...
Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 11:36 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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Support of Holi^h^h^^hDAZE, in Outlook (aka Situations when competition might help customers)

Before I forget, here is what the top of the day looks like in Outlook right now: Now I am not going to try and tell anyone that holidays are easy. Because they aren't. And anyone who tries to tell you that they are is probably trying to sell you something. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Four exceptions to prove the rule

As a general rule, once a sort has been added to Windows, it cannot ever be removed. But you have probably heard the expression that every rule has an exception, right? Well this rule is so freaking important that it has four exceptions! They are: #1: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

By some accounts, the names can be changed

At the risk of repeating myself, I find that once again I quote a particular releveant bit from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, just as I did here and here : Ford Prefect hit the ground running. The ground was about three inches farther from the ventilation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Note to Outlook: Koninginnedag isn't the reigning Queen's Birthday

The other day in Was last night Walpurgis [Night|Eve] or May Day Eve? , I showed the following picture of my Outlook calendar: and specifically mentioned how I was going to have us leave the Queen aside for the moment. Reader Bart Samwel commented on Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Please Look before you Leap a second

I am going to talk about Leap Seconds for a bit. I'll explain why I am doing so after I blather for a bit. Leap seconds are essentially a force of correction between two different philosophies of time measurement that are fundamentally different, with Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

More things that don't work for locales in the CRT

They say that you could put just the word Playboy or Hugh Hefner or a picture of the Playboy Bunny on an envelope and if the postage is right then it will make its way to the mansion. It is funny to imagine that kind of fuzzy matching at work, and not Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

That non-character can be the BOM at the right kind of party

The question from Vikash was: Hi, I am using CreateFile API to generate a Unicode file I have added the Unicode flags in my sources file and the file that is generated is also in Unicode format except for the first two bytes which do not have 0xFEFF However Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

User overrides are read/write, by definition

John's question was: Experimentally, it seems that CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo() returns a CultureInfo object which has UseUserOverrides set to false. Is this always the case? I couldn’t infer from the documentation that this is actually guaranteed. Thanks, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

JScript's ultimate globalization hero: VBScript

David asked: Hi, Does anyone know how to setLocale in Jscript? It seems like JS assumes that everything gets localized in current locale. Also, how do we convert string “1,234” into double 1234 (taking comma into consideration) The reason I am asking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

Much ado about zero, aka These zeroes won't ever amount to anything

The weirdness is easily noted if you try the following code in both .NET <= 1.1 and .NET >= 2.0: static void Main(string[] args) { Decimal val1 = 0m; Decimal val2 = 0.0m; Decimal val3 = 0.00m; Decimal val4 = 1m; Decimal val5 = 1.0m; Decimal val6 Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 12:11 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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