I'm not a Klingon
Shawn Steele's thoughts about Windows and .Net Framework globalization APIs
In my previous post I showed how to use the Registry to enable the new 令和 Reiwa Era for the Japanese...
Date: 04/10/2019
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Date: 04/01/2019
What is 元年 (Gannen)? With the upcoming new Japanese Calendar Era comes a new "year 1" for the new...
Date: 11/12/2018
Since I've been doing so much investigation around the Japanese Era, I noticed that our abbreviation...
Date: 08/14/2018
Over a decade ago I posted "Code Pages and Security Issues" - which touches on an interesting case...
Date: 08/09/2018
[Updated to include 令和 (Reiwa) instead of the test entry] Japanese Era Registry Key I've posted...
Date: 08/07/2018
Japanese Calendar Eras The Windows 10 Spring Release includes a placeholder for the era expected to...
Date: 04/12/2018
Some time ago I mentioned that there's a registry key that has values admins can edit if they want...
Date: 01/12/2018
Well, they've been dead for a long time; I pretty much killed them in the middle of the XP time...
Date: 11/21/2017
Previously I blogged about Culture Date Shouldn't Be Considered Stable (Except for Invariant) but it...
Date: 10/16/2017
Apparently I've been distracted by other things! I'll try to post some more, hopefully not too...
Date: 09/01/2017
Occasionally I get strange questions about things like "why does the calendar end in 9999?" or "how...
Date: 06/02/2016
I've blogged about Locale Data Churn a couple times in the past, and mentioned how to use the Locale...
Date: 08/29/2015
Data ChurnSome of you have noticed churn in the Locale Data (which ends up as Culture data in .Net)....
Date: 08/28/2015
The Locale Builder tool, https://aka.ms/localebuilder, runs on Windows 10 and can be used to modify...
Date: 08/27/2015
"Team XBox" is participating in a Lego Mindstorms "Build for Good" robotics competition at the EMP...
Date: 04/10/2014
I've been asked a few times how to verify how an international email address is well formed....
Date: 04/01/2014
Go Hawks! OSG's 12th Man Photo Hey, Microsoft tweeted a photo of 6,999 of my coworkers and I. Just...
Date: 01/31/2014
There's a new Locale Builder for creating your own custom locales live on the Download Center at...
Date: 11/18/2013
Not work related, but my latest Lego project is L3-G0, a Lego brick...
Date: 11/12/2013
I've had a couple questions about the IE/Windows behavior for IDNA2008 so I thought I'd address that...
Date: 09/09/2013
I updated...
Date: 05/30/2013
The JetAttachDatabase function’s JET_bitDbDeleteCorruptIndexes and...
Date: 05/30/2013
[Halloween, 2013, updated link, Bing fixed the script code for pIqaD] People have asked me where to...
Date: 05/20/2013
Bing Translator, Klingon High Council, and Klingon Language Institute announce support for Klingon as a Bing Translator Option!
The Bing Translator folks have announced support for Klingon as a translator option. This was also...
Date: 05/15/2013
Something strange happened on my Windows 8 Media Center computer. I didn’t really realize it...
Date: 04/22/2013
I noticed an oddity with Media Center Extenders that didn’t work very well with my system, and...
Date: 04/15/2013
I've said "use Unicode" a lot, but sometimes there are programs that aren't doing what you'd expect,...
Date: 01/24/2013
My first blog post from a surface!Apparently on Windows RT itʻs possible for Windows Update to...
Date: 11/08/2012
A while ago I blogged about Klingon in pIqaD in a Custom Locale - that worked OK in Vista & Win7...
Date: 07/11/2012
I helped write an RFC (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6532.txt) :) (Well, I've had input before,...
Date: 06/22/2012
<< Land Ho! (page 4) This has nothing to do with work (well, OK, I used Windows 8 for some...
Date: 06/16/2012
<< Like, What Do You Mean There Aren't Any Instructions (page 2) This has nothing to do with...
Date: 06/16/2012
<< Building the Lego Disney Wonder (Page 1) This has nothing to do with work (well, OK, I used...
Date: 06/16/2012
This has nothing to do with work (well, OK, I used Windows 8 for some photos, planning, desktop...
Date: 06/16/2012
One of the best new globalization features of Windows 8 is the new Language Profile. From the...
Date: 06/16/2012
Some people have asked whether Windows supports new Japanese Calendar Emperor eras if that becomes...
Date: 11/15/2011
Sometimes you want to see what's in a built-in culture, or maybe you want to figure out what data's...
Date: 11/03/2011
India changed it's currency symbol, and so now we have an update...
Date: 03/22/2011
So, for whatever reason, you want to know what the LDML that the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder needs...
Date: 03/04/2011