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Counting to four with the Holy Hand Grenade of Typography

It was like that scene out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the one about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch : Particularly important is the counting to three after the pulling of the triggering pin (the surmounted cross), complicated by King Arthur's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 11 Comments
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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

MingLiU to me and you (and Ming Light to the people most likely to use it)

So over in the Suggestion Box, typography comrade Josh asked: I wonder if you could explore a bit of font naming history and discuss the "Ming LiU" font(s) that is included with Windows. Notice the uppercase 'U' at the end of "LiU"...it is not "Liu", Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Internet Explorer and Windows might not be optimized for this Blog

After reading It isn't really RED versus GREEN , Cheong asked: I've searched for a while in charmap.exe and yet to find a font that'll display these characters in WinXP. That brings me to a question: Is there a font that ships with Windows (not necessarily Read More...
Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

Call Marlett symbolic or the problems might be quite real...

Earlier today, tshirk (probably not his real name?) asked via the Contact link: Okay, I'm sorry. This is a support question. I suck. I'm just asking if you've ever heard of applications that use Marlett (super secret Windows system symbol font) being Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 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

On why it's a bad thing to choose font information by name only

Looking back at the my blog Ready... set... Reboot Redux, part Deux! , in order tp get the link to help answer someone's question, I realized something very important. That blog does not give the solution, it really only states the problem. A problem Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 8: It's the end of the string as we know it (and I feel ellipses)

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 Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Want to hear about a cool new typographic convention? Khmer, and I'll tell you about it...

Now lots of people have already been talking about cool changes to fonts in Windows 7, such as blogs like Long Zheng's Improvements to fonts in Windows 7 , which talk about some of the long-awaited updates to the Fonts folder that will make so much of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

IsCrAndLfComplex or what?

The question from the other day from Patrick was: I have a class defined as public class Foo { private string name = "a\r\nb\r\nc"; public string Name { get { return this.name; } set { this.name = value; } } } When I push object foo:Foo into a property Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

On blowing a font cache, and overwhelming a Fonts folder with the raw power of typography

In response to About the Fonts folder in Windows, Part 3 (aka What changes in Vista?) , Shaun asked in a comment : I unzipped a large number of font folders into my Windows/Fonts folder and now the unzipped folders are not showing up… my Fonts folder Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:51 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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