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Monday, September 29, 2008 9:27 AM

Changing the currency symbol (Euro, etc) in Windows XP & Vista & Server

Countries sometimes change which currency symbol they're using. This is most obvious for countries using the Euro (wikipedia currently says those are currently: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta,
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:50 PM

Our Unicode Globalization Windows Language Support Presentation

Recently Peter Constable and I gave a presentation on Windows Language Support, which I've attached here. Poornima Priyadarshini and I also gave a presentation in Globalization in Silverlight, which I've attached in the previous post . Ironically this
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Attachment(s): IUC 32 - Windows Language Support.pptx
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:35 PM

Our Unicode & Globalization Silverlight Presentation

Recently Peter Constable and I gave a presentation on Windows Language Support, which I've attached in the next post . Poornima Priyadarshini and I also gave a presentation in Globalization in Silverlight, which I've attached here.
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Attachment(s): Globalization and Silverlight.pdf
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:06 AM

How come Substring(0, xxx) matches something, but StartsWith returns false?

I was asked how a string can match a substring of another string, yet StartsWith can return false? For example: string str = "Mu\x0308nchen"; string find = "Mu"; Console.WriteLine("Substring: " + (str.Substring(0,2) == find)); Console.WriteLine("StartsWith:"
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Monday, September 22, 2008 1:06 PM

World Wide Telescope is really cool

This isn't really related to anything I talk about, but I thought that Microsoft Research's World Wide Telescope is pretty fun: http://worldwidetelescope.org . This is a free program you can install and then it lets you zoom in on celestial objects like
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:40 PM

Silverlight Time Zone World Clock (Very Beta) Demo

For my presentation of globalization of Silverlight at the Unicode Conference I wanted to make a quick Silverlight demo application that would show at least a little bit of globalization and not be too hard to write. My first choice was to find an existing
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:23 PM

Some Silverlight Links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc721609.aspx http://silverlight.net/getstarted http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight http://msdn.microsoft.com/goglobal http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste http://code.msdn.microsoft.com http://www.codeplex.com http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=locale%20builder
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:42 AM

I'm at the Unicode Conference

As I've said before, I encourage "Using Unicode" for data. So I've gone to the Unicode conference ( http://www.unicode.org ) to give some presentations and learn some interesting stuff about characters and scripts and languages and other international
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