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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

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

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

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

On not being in Germany in October

Regular reader Jan Kučera asked me via the contact link: Hello Michael, first time using this contact form, I hope I have chosen the most appropriate way for my question. :-) I would like to ask if you have any plans attending or speaking at the Tamil Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

"What kind of soup?" is not exactly a soup question, is it?

It started with an expression. One I got from a movie. The name of the movie was Finding Forrester . This is a movie I liked a lot, though this is about one thing in particular. The relevant dialog from the movie, between William Forrester (Sean Connery) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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Is this blog safe for work? (aka Sometimes you gotta say 'What the rżne!')

Although Microsoft tries to be more transparent and give people more ways than ever to contact them, not all of those methods include the formal training of the handoff . Now the handoff is very important because in many or possibly even most cases, the Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 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

Turkish Character in Directory Name Hung Windows NT 3.5, aka small enough to be internationally stupid

The other day I was looking for something. On the Internet. You know how that goes, I'm sure. I didn't find it, though I know it is out there. You probably know how that goes too. I tried with both Google and Bing. Now I'm not a religious nut about either Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:41 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

I know I'll Never say Never... again, at least

So, thinking about consequences of the CASING piece of Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition - Part 2) . And ignoring that we didn't follow my recommendation, since I've covered that, for now. Let's look at what we Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 30, 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

Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü!

So the other day a colleague over in C++-ville forwarded a bug report he was looking at, one he wanted my thoughts about. It went something like this: Repro Steps: + Change language in Control Panel under "Regional an Language Options" tab "Advanced" Read More...
Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 11: Turning it up to Eleven!

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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