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Monday, March 26, 2007 4:32 PM

Why Me? :-)

Our spam filters here are pretty good, but every once in a while I get a spam mail offers to sell me Vista or Office for only $20 or so. Now I know the pirates aren't too smart, but if they're trying to sell pirated versions of Vista for $20, why are
Posted by shawnste | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:58 PM

Some Reasons to Make Your Application Unicode

[Updated Mar 30 2007: Mike pointed out errors which I've corrected] Many applications are "still" ANSI and can't handle Unicode. We (Microsoft) have even released non-Unicode applications reasonably recently. even though we should know better. In particular
Posted by shawnste | 2 Comments
Monday, March 19, 2007 11:53 AM

Some Keyboards fail with ANSI applications on Windows Vista RTM.

There's an unfortunate Windows Vista bug that causes keyboards to fail in ANSI applications. Its amusing in a sad sort of way since this bug missed about a dozen checks we have to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen. Anyway, keyboards attached
Posted by shawnste | 11 Comments
Monday, March 19, 2007 11:45 AM

DateTime.Parse() fails when separator is " " (space) in .Net v2.0 RTM

In Whidbey (Microsoft.Net v2.0), DateTime.Parse() throws an exception if the date separator is a space. This was fixed in future QFEs, including the Whidbey Vista release, so you'll only see this on XP, 2003, etc and not on Vista. This is fixed in future
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:08 PM

Hacking Code Pages, or "How to Totally Hose Your Machine AND Your Data".

WARNING: If you do any of the things in this blog you could end up with majorly messed up data, an unusable system, or both. Nothing mentioned here is recommended or supported by Microsoft or myself. At the very least if you encode data with a non-standard
Posted by shawnste | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:29 AM

A History of Code Pages or What Made Code Page XXXX (or many other computer things) The Way It Is?

Disclaimer: This is mostly my conjecture, so I could be completely wrong about some of this, but it seems plausible to me. I’m aiming for the general concepts here, not to start a discussion about the specific details of the history of code pages. Taking
Posted by shawnste | 1 Comments
Monday, March 12, 2007 11:10 AM

CP 951 & HKSCS

(Note that this happened before I started owning code pages, so I might be a bit confused about parts of this). Support for HKSCS is now through Unicode 5. There's a download available, Microsoft Character Code Conversion Routines For HKSCS-2004 , that
Posted by shawnste | 5 Comments
Monday, March 05, 2007 12:28 PM

.Net Framework Encoding Sample

A blog post I saw recently ( A .Net Unicode Puzzle ) reminded me of a sample we'd written for the .Net Framework Samples. " Fallback Encoding Application Sample " demonstrates the Encoding/Decoding and Fallback classes, using the various APIs provided.
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