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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

English is just another language -- so Windows 7 released all 36 at once!

In case you haven't noticed from the other gazillion blogs and tweets, Windows 7 released today. Windows has released a bunch of times, so what makes this one different, exactly? Well I could be boring and explain at length why it is the best, most secure, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:31 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

Buying the cow vs. the cut of beef you like

The other day a question came from someone doing some work to support MUI in their application. Their question was simple enough: Which one is preferred way GetFileMUIPath VS. GetThreadPreferredUILanguages? Although the question seems simple, the answer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Where do you want to go today^H^H^Hmorrow with MUI?

I have blogged about MUI (Multilingual User Interface) in Windows in the past. In particular (via blogs such as MUI is like your heartbeat; it's important and useful, whether you know about it or not ) I have discussed one of the principal design limitations: Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 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

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

On why it's a bad thing to choose font information by name only

Looking back at the my blog Ready... set... Reboot Redux, part Deux! , in order tp get the link to help answer someone's question, I realized something very important. That blog does not give the solution, it really only states the problem. A problem Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

y? Because it's documented that way!

The question yesterday was: For date formatting and parsing APIs, is there a difference between lower- and upper-case Ys? (I.e., “yyyy” v. “YYYY”.) The articles on MSDN seem to be inconclusive. Errr. That's an interesting question, I think. Whether one Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Apocalypse Font (aka Guess they must have picked the wrong eight characters.)

The title of this blog is an allusion to Coppola's Apocalypse Now , and eventually I'll be quoting a bit of the Herr-provided narration (those are the pieces Martin Sheen read)... It all started with a seemingly innocent question the other day. It went Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 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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You can either be intuitive and completely inconsistent, or consistent and completely unintuitive!

People have been misusing the word neutral in the whole area of internationalization of Microsoft products for quite some time now, a fact that I have discussed previously in blogs like Neutral? I do not think that word means what you think it means! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

I think we're taking the wrong approach, mostly

In the past, I've done a lot of presentations on globalization and localizability issues. In different companies where I was brought in to do this, they were very well received, because generally a company is being asked to do the work to support another Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

From ____ to ____ to MUI to ELS -- World Ready @ the PDC!

If you are the PDC in Los Angeles, you may have seen Yaniv Feinberg from the Globalization Services team and Erik Fortune from the Multilingual User Interface team, who did a 75-minute presentation entitled Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:00 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Ready... set... Reboot Redux, part Deux!

Now it all started with Ready... set... Reboot! back in February of 2005, where the issues of reboot and the default system locale were first discussed. And then the follow-up ( Ready... set... Reboot Redux ), which talks about how sometimes you might Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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