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March 2008 - Posts

"Yamla" blocked Microsoft from updating Wikipedia.

Bummer. Sometimes I try to make technical edits to wikipedia, but I'm too lazy to set up an account. I avoid the anti-microsoft pages because they're just to biased, and only focus on technical issueSeems that Microsoft's IP addresses have been blocked
Posted by shawnste | 3 Comments

Server 2008 U+FFFD behavior for unknown or illegal UTF-8 sequences.

In my post Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance I mentioned that the behavior of illegal characters has changed for Unicode 5 conformance in Windows Vista / .Net 2.0+. Those changes have also been inherited by Server 2008. Also check

MSDN Code Gallery Custom Locales

MSDN has this new nifty Code Gallery place for samples and the like, so I stuck my custom locale examples there at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CustomLocales I added a few more since posting them to my blog here.
 
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