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Friday, October 13, 2006 11:55 AM

Vista changes .Net 2.0 Locale Names, sample work around custom cultures/locales

[10 July 2007] The recent security patch to .Net changed the behavior on other Windows versions as well (XP, 2003, 2000). If your application still requires the old names this workaround might work for you. In order to follow RFC 4646 more closely (formerly
Posted by shawnste | 7 Comments
Attachment(s): MakeCultures.cs
Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:00 PM

Example of overriding your own Encoding.

Previously I wrote about the Best Way to Make Your Own Encoding , but didn't include an example, so today I'm including an example of a replacement Encoding. I also included an EncoderFallback example, which replaces unknown characters with numerical
Posted by shawnste | 7 Comments
Attachment(s): EncodingSample.cs
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:52 PM

Rambling about RFC 4690 and IDN

There's a reasonably new RFC 4690 ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4690.txt ) that raises a bunch of questions about IDN names and Unicode regarding such things as confusable characters and other issues. Some of those are also discussed in Unicode TR36 "Unicode
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:17 PM

RFC 3066 has been replaced by RFC 4646

I've mentioned RFC 3066, which describes locale names such as en-US, in some posts. Its now finally been superseded by RFC 4646.
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