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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 | 0 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 | 5 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

Output on customer input on MSLU's ReadConsoleInputW

There is a bug in the Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Win9x Systems in the ReadConsoleInput function. This was actually just recently reported for the very first time (that I have ever heard of) this last Novermber. The report from Ross Ridge in the MSLU Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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Having problems with MSLU?

The question from lonelyhawl was: I have create a unicode program in windows XP(using vs 2003) by method you have introduced. But it still can not run in windows 98, when it runs, it prompt a runtime error. I have rebuild the .lib files and replaced them Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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Converting a project to Unicode: Part 9 (The project's postpartum postmortem)

Previous posts in this series (including today's!): Part 0 (The introduction) Part 1 (Business before pleasure) Part 2 ('Sorry, you're not my type.' 'Um, maybe I could change that?) Part 3 (Can I quote you on that?) Part 4 (/Delightful, /Delicious, /DUnicode!) Read More...
Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 3:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Converting a project to Unicode: Part 8 (Fitting MSLU into the mix)

Previous posts in this series (including today's!): Part 0 (The introduction) Part 1 (Business before pleasure) Part 2 ('Sorry, you're not my type.' 'Um, maybe I could change that?) Part 3 (Can I quote you on that?) Part 4 (/Delightful, /Delicious, /DUnicode!) Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 Comments

UTF-8 and GB18030 are both 'NT' code pages, they just aren't 'ANSI' code pages

Michael Entin asks in the Suggestion Box: Hi Michael. I want to revisit UTF-8 discussion. In several posts you wrote that it is impossible to support UTF-8 as NT code page, since there is a lot of legacy code that assumes maximum of 2 bytes per char. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Converting a project to Unicode: Part 1 (Business before pleasure)

Previous posts in this series (including today's!): Part 0 (The introduction) Part 1 (Business before pleasure) Before we get to jump in and work on code, there are a few items to take care of. Any time the idea of converting an existing project to Unicode Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

'Please email answers to me directly as I am not yet on this alias'

I swear when I saw Raymond's post No good deed goes unpunished, part 2 earlier today I almost ruined a keyboard since I had a mouthful of Limonata at the time. I get the same problem a bit, though not nearly as much as he does (he answers a lot more mail Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:50 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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