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How are the Danes doing it?

WARNING: This blog has nothing whatsoever ¹ do with Nordic sex. Regular reader Santhosh Pillai had a question not too long ago that I found to be rather kick ass and cool, professionally speaking. It was: Hi, I am trying to figure out how these characters Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Whither ICU.NET? I don't see it thither...

In the past 10 days I have had four people ask me the same question. Here is one if the most recent ones: Hi Michael, One of my friends was asking if there is an ICU for .NET. icu4c-4_0-Win32-msvc8.zip that he got from http://www.icu-project.org/download/4.0.html Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Sorting "Collate" all out

It was recently suggested to me that the terms COLLATION and COLLATE are confusing to people. Not people over here, I'd guess. And probably not so much the people who work in SQL Server or Access or really any database program -- anyone who places so Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

"If you haven't had sex is six months..." the IM read

The mail I got the other day from Brett was pretty amusing (reposted uncensored with his permission, with no hint as to whether he was Anonymous1 or Anonymous2: Regards this conversation … anonymized for obvious reasons … Anonymous 1 [10:09 AM]: If you Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

I İ ı i before Ѐ ѐ unless you ask Y y ʏ

I was asked the other day what I thought about string comparisons. What with all the different recommendations floating around, all of the different possibilities, and all the unclear guidelines, the question was whether there was a succinct way to describe Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Azeri serious bug for non-Unicode SQL Server columns?

So it all started in a conversation with some of the folks from the SQL Server team when I was at PASS. What did they expect? Send 600 Microsoft employees to an event and you are bound to run into some of them just in the act of walking around! They were Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #5 of ?? (sometimes it is phase 3 that is ????)

Warning: although slightly technical, this blog is mostly non-technical, and/or technical about stuff related to the iBOT. If the technical issues related to SQL Server and/or PASS interest you then they will probably show up in future blogs ... Prior Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 11 Comments

When features collide (aka Your LCID sucks, but sometimes the bug sucks more)

Regular readers might recall a long ago blog entitled New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy? , which talked about the new name-based NLS API functions, intended to wean people off of their use of LCIDs. Because let's face it, LCIDs suck . Anyway, Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

You can either be intuitive and completely inconsistent, or consistent and completely unintuitive!

People have been misusing the word neutral in the whole area of internationalization of Microsoft products for quite some time now, a fact that I have discussed previously in blogs like Neutral? I do not think that word means what you think it means! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Trying to ignore the small stuff is harder, if you're Arabic

Via the Contact link, Alain asked: Hello Michael, I ask you about a problem I searched on the net all morning and get no response. We work à UNESCO (Paris/France) on a multi-lingual database (SQL Server 2005). We actually add Arabic to a English/French/Spanish/Russian Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

I think we're taking the wrong approach, mostly

In the past, I've done a lot of presentations on globalization and localizability issues. In different companies where I was brought in to do this, they were very well received, because generally a company is being asked to do the work to support another Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

What's the shape of the sort?

There is an old Marx Brothers routine that goes something like this: Groucho : What's the shape of the world? Harpo : It's terrible. Groucho : No, I'm talking about the shape. Harpro : Oh, that's different. Groucho : So what's the shape of the world? Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 8:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

How the @#%&*! does CBS_SORT choose to sort it all out?

The question was an interesting one: My customer has a tree control with nodes sorted using CString::Compare(). In another part of the application he has the same list of names in a combo box that has the CBS_SORT style set. He wants names to appear in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Silverlight as Esau: selling its implementation for a pot of interface

Apologies for the biblical metaphor in the title... Now I mentioned last week in Shine a Little [Silver]Light that Sometime soon I'll talk about the next big question that is likely to be on many people's minds after they look at the slides. and with Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Shine a Little [Silver]Light

Not a blog about VanVelzen, sorry to disappint any fans of his! Just in case you have been too busy following the presidential race in the USA to notice, Microsoft did just release Silverlight 2.0 . Which is pretty cool in most respects. One piece of Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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