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The vector of this spam is [apparently] indeterminate

I have talked in the past about my feelings regarding the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in blogs such as The torrents of U+fffd (aka When security and conformance trump compatibility and reality) . And I have even mentioned in the A less intelligent strain of Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

On the popularity of Unicode: percentages are not raw numbers

There has been a lot of recent buzz based on the Moving to Unicode 5.1 post in the googleblog written by Mark Davis. Enough that people keep sending me email asking if I had seen it, much of that traffic being there because I haven't blogged about it Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

In hindsight, they may have BEST FIT these files where the sun never shines

Recently while paying attention to The Unicode List I was once again reminded why I don't pay more attention to The Unicode List . :-) Specifically it was a thread started by Andreas Prilop: I refer to http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Support of Holi^h^h^^hDAZE, in Outlook (aka Situations when competition might help customers)

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...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

25 years at Microsoft? Amazing, I tell you!

I found 25 to be the last birthday I actually look forward to. I think that is to do with my cynical nature -- I mean at 16 you can get your license 1 , at 18 you can vote or enlist 2 , at 21 you can drink 3 . And at 25 I could finally afford my auto Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Who bells the cat when it comes to glyph substitution?

Over in the Suggestion Box, AJB asked: I am curious about the division of labor between Uniscribe (or any other rendering\layout engine) and the OpenType font, with regards to glyph substitution. I've been poking around parsing the OpenType font data Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Please Look before you Leap a second

I am going to talk about Leap Seconds for a bit. I'll explain why I am doing so after I blather for a bit. Leap seconds are essentially a force of correction between two different philosophies of time measurement that are fundamentally different, with Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

More things that don't work for locales in the CRT

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...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

That non-character can be the BOM at the right kind of party

The question from Vikash was: Hi, I am using CreateFile API to generate a Unicode file I have added the Unicode flags in my sources file and the file that is generated is also in Unicode format except for the first two bytes which do not have 0xFEFF However Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Why WC2MB needs a CP, chaver sheli!

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...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Unicode -- making a difference

Regular reader Arun pointed out an interesting article to me: Michael, Check out ( http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/04/28/10-most-important-technologies-you-never-think-about_1.html ) for the 10 most important Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments
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JScript's ultimate globalization hero: VBScript

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...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

On the clipboard, and why sometimes the dumber you are the better you can do

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 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

That brings new meaning to having "a ç-section" (Ãç§), doesn't it?

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...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Vowel DISharmony?, aka The case of the missing dot

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.... Randy Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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