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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

Why Bengali keyboards can't be found on XP 64 bit

One of the interesting benefits of reading this blog is that it can provide answers to questions that you run across later. For example, I got mail the other day that was forwarding a question from someone: A friend was happily using the Bengali language Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

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

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

The font folder, like the party, never seems to get smaller

Alvin asked (in the Suggestion Box after reading this blog that listed the fonts in Vista): ...could you suggest a list of fonts that can be safely removed in Windows Vista? Or in other words, what are the system fonts in Windows vista that cannot be Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Was last night Walpurgis [Night|Eve] or May Day Eve?

Yesterday in Outlook, the holiday story was an interesting one: We'll leave the Queen aside for a moment. :-) The other two holidays put me in mind of a book -- Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park , which had the following in it: "...Now you must excuse me; Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 14 Comments
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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

THANK GOD IT'S FROODAY?

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... The Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Uncheck != uninstall (even in SP3 or SP* for that matter)

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... Via Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

I Adar you! Hell, I Double Adar you!

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... You Read More...
Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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