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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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