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Keeping myself up at night figuring out how to delight someone by making that special part of my package smaller

Conventional wisdom tells us that size matters, and unconventional (or more accurately, inappropriate?) wisdom tends to concur. Most of the time it refers to the idea that bigger is better . But there are some times that it matters in the opposite way Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Tavultesoft is one of the company names mispronounced more often than Trigeminal

Regular readers may recall that I have mentioned Marc Durdin in the past, especially in posts like the recent The key to key messages is a key contribution , where I went on for a bit about the fact he impresses me professionally.... I also enjoyed the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 13 Comments

Its the End[UpdateResource] of the world we know it

It was late last week when Maksim asked a very interesting question via email to one of those large aliases at Microsoft: SUBJECT: EndUpdateResource failing after adding cirtain number of items with UpdateResource Hi, It appears that there is a bug (or Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

They weren't on crack; they were just on a new, unknown track!

Recently, it has been interesting to note how the microsoft.public.platformsdk.mslayerforunicode newsgroup has been getting traffic, but traffic that has nothing whatsoever to do with MSLU, the Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems. Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Is that character in the font or isn't it?

Regular reader Yaytay asks over in the Suggestion Box: How can I find out, from code, (reliably and completely:-) ) which fonts support a given character? I've tried using GetGlyphIndices, but there are still some fonts that return non-zero values for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

The hazards of appropriate cleanup

There was a mail thread that happened recently on one of those "if you aren't a fulltime employee then why the hell are you here?" kind of aliases, one that I belong to because by following along the problems (and occasionally looking at the remotes) Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 12:46 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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How do[es what] the common controls [call ]convert between ANSI and Unicode?

The other day, Raymond Chen blogged about How do the common controls convert between ANSI and Unicode? , in response to a question in his suggestion box: In the context of an ansi (not unicode) app: How do the common controls (listview for example) decide Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Fight the Future? (#10 of ??), aka Looks like I wasn't mistaken

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.... Over Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

How to avoid that problem of never being 'up to date'

I am never the type of superior elitist code snob who feels above people who improve on the things that I do. Or have done. And even if something is no longer officially supported by Microsoft , I am not the sort to just ignore people who are still trying Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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The 9.0 instructions for building MFC and the CRT to use MSLU?

Now if you look over on the side of the blog, you will see an expandable group entitled Rebuilding MFC and the CRT with MSLU, with links under it for MFC/CRT 6.0 , MFC/CRT 7.0 , MFC/CRT 7.1 , and MFC/CRT 8.0 . Now that Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Orcas") Read More...
Posted Monday, December 24, 2007 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Superstition: Why MSLU stopped using GetFileAttributesW in its platform detection

I was reading Raymond's Superstition: Why is GetFileAttributes the way old-timers test file existence? the other day and all I could think about was the fact that the way that Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems (MSLU) had to drop Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments
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Help prove that I am wrong, please

Attention to people who use newsgroups! (all others can probably ignore) I would like for people out there to prove me wrong. Perhaps I should explain. :-) As I have noted in the past, I keep an eye on some newsgroups. The current list I watch: microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:44 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Testing MSLU

I had someone ask me the other day what kind of testing was done for MSLU. I told him that the whole project was an interesting example of how the places you expect to find bugs are fine while the places you think are fun have many bugs! As a starting Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

A way better model for features

Say what you want about MSLU (you might love it, you might hate it, you might have never even looked into it enough to have an opinion), one feature that it had quite overwhelmingly in its favor was that it did its best to make sure that you could write Read More...
Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 11:11 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

The MSL8 project? Cool!

Bart mentions over the Suggestion Box: Continuing on the 'Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:05 AM Michael S. Kaplan Why can't the CP_ACP be UTF-8? ' topic. We are currently looking into making something like unicows.dll. Except that it intercepts calls to Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 8:10 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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