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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

The error is in the premise (aka garbage in, undefined out)

Yesterday, Eran asked (via the Contact link): Shalom, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong way to report this issue. I've waisted two hours trying to figure out how to use Connect for this, to no avail. Being an occasional reader, contacting you Read More...
Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments
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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

Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 2)

You may want to start with Part 1 of this series.... Okay, here we go. Last time some of the font stuff was covered. It is nice when letters are given the opportunity to look good. In the end, what can often be more important than how something looks Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 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

Atlas? Jove? Where's my Wubi? (The latter shrugged, the former nodded)

So some people noticed that the Wubi IME that used to work on Windows wasn't there anymore. You may be familiar with the story -- it was there for them in XP but then for Vista (and Windows 7) it wasn't. The funny thing for me about the Wubi IME is that Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Those keys aren't going to be extended; they're dead!

Rimas Kudelis asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi Michael, I was wondering if you know if there are any plans to extend the Windows keyboard driver in future? In particular, I'm interested about the limitations related to dead keys. Back in 2006 (in Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

Almost winning an award can be pretty damn stressful!

A few days ago, and I'm really pleased about this, the Keyboard Layout Creator was up for a Microsoft Engineering Excellence award. It was funny, at the ceremony I was talking to one if the staff people, mentioning that we were up for an award and asking Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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The Whey doesn't get a locale, either

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts based on the way I think things are going. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I'd have skipped this Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

LoadKeyboardLayout is a 00bada55 puppy dog tail wagger of a function

There are many functions in the Win32 API that really amount to little more than requests. The caller is asking for something, perhaps passing parameters to give specifics on what the caller wants. And the caller will usually get something back. It will Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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ImmGetDescription: another casualty of the IMM to TSF migration

VB expert and long time compatriot/comrade Bill McCarthy asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hey Michka, Can you tell us why ImmGetDescription seems to return zero length on Vista ? Is it broken ? Thanks. It's funny how many people still know me as Michka Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

On reverting unexplained spontaneous alteration of language

Cheekheon asked via the Contact link: Hi, I have a NEC Desktop Computer running Windows XP Home Edition SP 2 with an ATI X300 (RV370) display card. A few months ago, I did a security update from Microsoft and was advised to update my ATI display driver. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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Being smart, by not trying to be clever

There are times that Microsoft Word is too smart for its own good The message I received via the Contact link was: Dear Michael, First, I would like to thank you for your great BLOG! Well done! I've spent many hours reading and studying various articles Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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