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Maybe we're wrong, but we'd likely never admit it

The question from Jim was: I am troubleshooting an issue with Vista SP2 where the common dialogs seem to be failing – Notepad – File/Open gives: “Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Fastest? Perhaps. Wrongest? Certainly!

The question was deceptively simple: Hi, I used all three and I find ToLower() to be fastest .But the Msdn article says that ToLowerInvariant should be faster. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.tolowerinvariant(VS.85).aspx . Which Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:01 AM 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

From KLID to GUID (aka KLIDoral stimulation, it feels GUID)

Apologies for the title (note to self: never author blog titles under the influence to try to appear as a cunning linguist!) So it was just the other day that Yong asked: Ok, so it looks like we got a regression (or a design change) on Vista/Windows 7 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

What is impossible for Microsoft can be simply undesireable for Unicode

Sometimes an implementation makes a certain feature impossible. Like the way Microsoft does collation, in particular the way its DEFAULT table is implemented (a flat DWORD table for everything 0x0000 to 0xFFFF) means that you can't ever have compressions Read More...
Posted Monday, September 14, 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

How ConvertDefaultLocale sorta broke backward compatibility in Windows 7, and why

Over in the Suggestion Box, Aaron asked: Michael, We noticed a problematic breaking change between Windows 7 and previous OS's around ConvertDefaultLocale and the Spanish LCIDs LCID lcid1 = ConvertDefaultLocale(PRIMARYLANGID(1034)); LCID lcid2 = ConvertDefaultLocale(PRIMARYLANGID(3082)); Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 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

When you're in the red, you don't have a lot of choices

This blog is not about the economy! Regular readers may remember this blog, where I mentioned how much I limited my negative categorizations -- the whole English language and I was holding it down to three adjectives. It turns out that there is a part Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 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

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
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