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Someone please detect if there's a BOM before the plane takes off!

One can really never get enough of puns about the BOM (Byte Order Mark) and TSA. And when I say one, I mean I. :-) Just think back to blogs like Don't sneak a BOM in on someone who promises to ignore free space or Everyone seems averse to the BOM these Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Does your font lie? Its dishonety may come home to roost....

Regular reader Pavanaja U B asked over in the Suggestion Box: In Word 2003 and prior, there was an option "not to display the font name in that font". This was very useful while using hacked non-English TTF fonts which were using the ASCII codes meant Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Complex class designs begat unintuitive interactions begat unexpected results begat a blog

Frank's question is one any reasonable person could have: So, why is XmlWriter producing a document with encoding = UTF16 when I specify UTF8 ? static void Main(string[] args) { XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings(); xws.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

Frost's The Form Not Taken

Over in the Suggestion Box, Aaron asked: Hi again - question about one of your favorite codepages - 1258 (Vietnamese) and combining diacritics in regards to Unicode character U+1EB7 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND DOT BELOW - http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1eb7/index.htm) Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 7: If it makes the SQL Server columns too small then it made the Oracle columns either too smallER or too smallEST

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:01 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

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 6: An exercise left for whoever needs some exercise

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement (where MS simultaneously gets better and Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 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

Apocalypse Font (aka Guess they must have picked the wrong eight characters.)

The title of this blog is an allusion to Coppola's Apocalypse Now , and eventually I'll be quoting a bit of the Herr-provided narration (those are the pieces Martin Sheen read)... It all started with a seemingly innocent question the other day. It went Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 12 Comments

In or out of the default, no way to win, really

Microsoft tends to get criticized, no matter what they (by which I mean we) do. They (by which I mean customers) hate that the default install the additional IME, keyboard, font, and code page files(ref: What isn't in the default install for NLS ). But Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

No need to throw out the baby with the streamwriter; they probably could have just put in a replacement

So anyway, Kim 's other recent blog, entitled Making a StreamWriter usable even after given garbage characters , highlights an interesting difference some of the methodology between the way that Windows and .Net handle encoding and codepages. In Windows Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 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
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