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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

Maybe we're wrong, but we'd likely never admit it

The question from Jim was: I am troubleshooting an issue with Vista SP2 where the common dialogs seem to be failing – Notepad – File/Open gives: “Not enough memory available to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 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

If it ain't a soup question, keep it the hell out of the room

The other day, in "What kind of soup?" is not exactly a soup question, is it? , I mentioned that I might have a technical example of the issue of Not exactly a soup question, is it? so think of this blog as me finally getting around to doing that. It Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Microsoft is a company in Redmond, WA, in the USA

Microsoft is a company based in Redmond, Washington, in the United States of America. Yes it is a world wide company. Yes almost 60% of its products are sold to customers who are not in the US. Yes there are development centers around the world and in Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 13 Comments

How ConvertDefaultLocale sorta broke backward compatibility in Windows 7, and why

Over in the Suggestion Box, Aaron asked: Michael, We noticed a problematic breaking change between Windows 7 and previous OS's around ConvertDefaultLocale and the Spanish LCIDs LCID lcid1 = ConvertDefaultLocale(PRIMARYLANGID(1034)); LCID lcid2 = ConvertDefaultLocale(PRIMARYLANGID(3082)); Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

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

Header files are not retarded, aka What the @#%&* is _O_WTEXT?

There was a recent [internal] discussion thread where someone was asking about what was the best way to output localized text to the console. After a bit of thread drift, STL pointed out that blog post ( Conventional wisdom is retarded, aka What the @#%&* Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

On the nonubiquitousness of Ü

So, in a quick follow-up to Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü! from the other day, the investigation into the cause has happened: ok, what happens is that MFC is actually throwing an exception, because _mbsupr_s() does return EILSEQ. The crash Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:29 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 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
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