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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

Can I show the whole string or can't I?

Jim's question from a few weeks ago was: I’m being given a Unicode string and I need to determine if it will render cleanly using the system font (not displaying any blocks or “non-supported-glyph” symbols). I’ve tried using ScriptGetCMap() and GetGlyphIndices(), Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 8 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

What is impossible for Microsoft can be simply undesireable for Unicode

Sometimes an implementation makes a certain feature impossible. Like the way Microsoft does collation, in particular the way its DEFAULT table is implemented (a flat DWORD table for everything 0x0000 to 0xFFFF) means that you can't ever have compressions Read More...
Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

On not being in Germany in October

Regular reader Jan Kučera asked me via the contact link: Hello Michael, first time using this contact form, I hope I have chosen the most appropriate way for my question. :-) I would like to ask if you have any plans attending or speaking at the Tamil Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

No Welsh puns here. Ever. Not even a little one. Not at all...

I have the feeling that certain questions are going to keep getting asked. Some in person, like "What's up with your facebook profile pictures?" Or others via email, like the one about people not feeling like a code page selection is right for a particular Read More...
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

On not looking at Uyghur through a Chinese prism

I just remembered that I have a Suggestion Box! In it, Abdusalem asked: Hi Michael, I would like to ask/or suggest as a topic something about the Uyghur (PRC) locale in Windows 7. This is a new locale that has been supported by Windows since Windows Vista Read More...
Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 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

16 is not to 64 as 8 (either 8) is to 16....

So McDowell asked in a comment: Apologies if this is the wrong place, or this has come up before, but does 64bit Windows sound the death knell for OEM code pages on the console? I haven't run a 64-bit version of Windows, so I can't check if I'm just behind Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 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

Garbage in, garbage out -- and this means Ü!

So the other day a colleague over in C++-ville forwarded a bug report he was looking at, one he wanted my thoughts about. It went something like this: Repro Steps: + Change language in Control Panel under "Regional an Language Options" tab "Advanced" Read More...
Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 11: Turning it up to Eleven!

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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