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Friday, November 06, 2009 9:54 AM

SetLocaleInfo() is horrid, don't use it!

I just ran into a bug with SetLocaleInfo() use, and it pretty much reminded me that SetLocaleInfo() stinks. Michael said it years ago and it's still true. The only thing it's useful for is a "Regional and Language Options" type app, and there's already
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:41 AM

Missing International Setting Registry Key?

Some Zune users ran into a strange problem http://forums.zune.net/2/3/518796/ShowPost.aspx and it seems like the Nation Value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Geo isn't there on some Windows XP machines. That seems really wierd to me because
Posted by shawnste | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:30 AM

What is Title Case?

Disclaimer: I'm not an English teacher (that's my mom), so I'm sure my description of title casing in English probably has exceptions/variations. Title casing has an interesting history in computer programming. Programmers like to use CamelCase to make
Posted by shawnste | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:22 PM

Locale Builder and Two Letter ISO name and Three Letter Windows Language Name

When you use the Microsoft Locale Builder tool to build a custom locale, it asks for a lot of fields. Two may not be obvious: The Two Letter ISO Language name is permitted to be 3 letters for locales that don't have a 2 letter code (eg: haw for Hawaiian).
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:15 PM

Cheating to UNinstall Custom Cultures / Locales

In Cheating To Install Custom Cultures , I mentioned how to add the custom cultures without using CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder.Register(). Should you have any problems with a custom culture / locale and want to uninstall it but are having difficulty with
Posted by shawnste | 1 Comments
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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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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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:30 AM

How Come My "ț" (or Another Character) Doesn't Work in Code Page XXX?

First of all, as I always suggest, Use Unicode when practical :) Then you don't run into these kinds of problems. The "thing" to remember about code pages in general is that they were an early way to get characters to display in a readable way on CRT
Posted by shawnste | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:12 PM

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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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:04 PM

http://www.languagegeek.com/

http://www.languagegeek.com/ says it is dedicated to the promotion of Native North American languages. A coworker ran into this site while she was trying to learn more about the Lakota language (and she made a Lakota custom locale too! :) I don't know
Posted by shawnste | 1 Comments
Friday, December 14, 2007 10:49 AM

Cantonese and Manderin language tagging.

The IETF "Language Tag Registry Update" working group has noted that lots of data is tagged as "zh-Hant", regardless of whether or not it is pronounced as Cantonese or Manderin. For video and audio however, this doesn't allow a fine enough distinction,
Posted by shawnste | 4 Comments
Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:37 AM

zh-Hans, zh-Hant and the "old" zh-CHS, zh-CHT

With Windows Vista and Microsoft .Net 2.0 (MS07-040 security patch) and 3.0+, we've started to use the IETF standard "zh-Hans", and "zh-Hant" names for Chinese simplified and traditional. In windows the zh-CHS/zh-CHT names were never used because the
Posted by shawnste | 6 Comments
Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:30 AM

How do you make your regional and language options apply to new user accounts?

In general its a good idea to allow users to choose appropriate settings, but being able to adjust the default user account settings to provide users with an appropriate default locale is often helpful. Also one cannot easily change the system account's
Posted by shawnste | 3 Comments
Friday, August 03, 2007 11:34 AM

What's a genitive month name anyway?

I’m not a linguistic expert, so I’ll probably get this a bit wrong, but basically a genitive month name is used when there’s a number next to the month name. This doesn’t happen in English, but I think of it sort of like instead of saying “1 April 2008”,
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:07 AM

"Windows Vista Command Line Configuration of International Settings" is on-line on MSDN

Generally its a good idea to let the users figure out their international settings, but sometimes they need to be managed in a command-line manner. Windows Vista Command Line Configuration of International Settings at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/vista/vista_tools/vista_command_line_international_configuration.mspx
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