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August 2006 - Posts

Friday, August 25, 2006 11:40 AM

Does "Everyone" Use IDN?

Recently it came to my attention that arbitrary implementation of IDN can break existing networks. Particularly on Intranets machine names have not always been restricted to ASCII. In many of our markets it is quite common to have non-ASCII machine names.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:11 AM

How Come IdnToAscii Fails For String XXXX?

I'm often asked why particular strings fail the IdnToAscii function. The answer is "because its not a legal IDN name, that's why" :-) But why aren't some strings legal IDN names? Some rules act on the "label" level. In www.microsoft.com www, microsoft
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:12 PM

What country to use for my Klingon (or other special custom) locale?

I ran into an example today of "tlh-KX" being used for Klingon and felt it was worth a blog. This doesn't just apply to Klingon, but rather to any invented, special-use or not-yet-assigned language, country, or region. I'm all for making up locales that
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Monday, August 07, 2006 5:14 PM

MSDN Wiki is kind of cool.

MSDN has a Wiki at http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com that lets you add content to VS2005 documentation (ie: Microsoft .Net v2.0). Its still kind of early to say how interesting this is going to be, but it has some potential. I'd like to see it cover the unmanaged
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Monday, August 07, 2006 11:30 AM

How's the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder (CARIB) do that?

The Microsoft Locale Builder tool is great for building custom locales. In fact it seems to even do things that the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder (CARIB) itself appears unable to do. The answer is by using Reflection. The behavior I’m describing is all
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