Sorting it all Out

Could you possiblly create a topic on how to create an installer package for  fonts. I have one that works on XP using Installer Creator, but it doesn't work on Vista. I've read a few forums that talk about elevated status and such in order to be able to write to the Fonts folkder. Even when using an admin account and turned off User Account Control, the installer runs and tells you that the fonts have been installed, but when you look in the fonts folder they have not. I'm hoping to find something cheap (or free!) and simple as this is the only Windows installer I need to create.

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Your recent In SQL Server, A-Z [...] might not mean the same thing:

It got me thinking, a whole post dedicated to the problems of mixing regular expressions and i18n would be very interesting.  Some questions i've always woried about but never tested:

+ '\b' word boundaries, do they incorrectly show up when surrogate pairs or combining characters are involved?

+ '\b' word boundaries, are there / should there be characters that form word boundaries only sometimes.  It's plausible in some interpretations that "hy-phen" has only two word boundaries, at the begining and end, but in reality is has 4, as '-' is not a '\w' character.  But do other unicode characters have some sort of weird identity.

+ If i have an accented character as two code points (combining), does / should '.' (or '?' in Win32 regex) match the character and the accent, or just the base character?

+ how wide is the definition of '\w' word character?  Does it / should it ever change based on the current user locale/language?

Most importantly

+ how likely is your average regular expression going to be i18n unsafe?  what are the common pitfalls to avoid?

Note: for 'should / does', i'm asking all of (a) what do you (Michael Kaplan) think it _should_ do, and (b) what do some common implementations do (for instance, the .Net System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex class, or the new TR1 regex in Visual Studio 2008, or Win32 with FindFirstFile and friends)

(Oh, and your blog is awesome!)

#aaron

Also Michael,

does Office 2007 introduce any new fonts, aside from the Vista C* fonts, with any language pack?

The method you described in May 2005 ("Typing in random Unicode code points") for entering Unicode characters by installing the Chinese language and IME simply doesn't work on my Win XP Pro + SP2 system.

The idea is that you select Chinese and then, with Numlock turned on, type the decimal character code on the numeric keypad while holding down the Alt key. I've tried it in IE7, Outlook Express 6 and Wordpad. No joy. For example, the decimal code 10003 (hex 2713) should produce a tick (check mark in American English). It doesn't. It merely produces a double exclamation mark, the same as if Chinese were not even installed, let alone selected.

Please, what have I done wrong?

Dialog Units.

What they were designed to do. Where they would have hopefully worked. How it is they originally did work. When they began to break down. The workaround used to try to keep them working. How they no longer work for their original purpose. Technique to try to roll your own.

Hi,

 quite filling here, isn't it? :) Okay, this might be a little bit non-technical question, but... every day, somebody wants a _strong_ password from me. The best one would be of course kilometer long, with some crazy stuff like _-*!#$ in it.

Well, I have nothing against special 'symbols' in the password, but why on earth only ASCII characters are supported? I don't know how about eg. banks in USA, but for my short life I haven't found any web site allowing me to enter (um... support) unicode password.

Am I missing something fundamental here? :)

        Jan

I see from this long list of suggestions that you're getting pretty popular, and/or pretty busy elsewhere, but whenever you get around to this one, please have a look at my two comments on your answer here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2008/01/30/7323699.aspx

I'm sorry I hadn't put my question more clearly, or somehow had given the impression of being a complete novice (I like simple words, it's true)...

(Combining with suggestion from 4/20 from the same person)

I was slow in reacting to your illumined answer to my earlier question/suggestion, and now I think you'll never see it unless I write this kind reminder...

The title was "A more usable Dutch keyboard that works properly?" and thanks in advance!

Hi Michael,

I've been scouring the net for some discussion of how one goes about tailoring a default collation table. Specifically, how does one correctly re-weight the table? ICU does it, but doesn't do a particularly good job of describing how. The UCA talks about it, but mentions very few particulars.

In my case, I'm interested in tailoring the DUCET, but I wondered if perhaps you could share some insight into how Microsoft generates the resulting weights from their default table.