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Software developer David's question was easy enough on the surface. I mean, it really didn;t seem like the kind of question that would inpsire deep conversations and government and language and politics and locales and so on: I recently found some data Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

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

Zune in the zone (aka It is not easy to embarrass a man with no shame)

I am a little embarrassed. For a man with no shame such as myself, this is quite a feat. I was not trying to set any kind of record with this "accomplishment", for what its worth. Nevertheless, I am a little embarrassed. Perhaps I should explain. You Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:01 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

Black hole sun, Vista gadget come, don't predict China's rain?

Computerized apologies to Soundgarden, an awesome band that at a minimum deserves more intelligent puns.... Someone was having trouble getting something to work in Vista (yes, yes, alert the news media). The problem description: Hi, there, sorry for spam. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 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

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

Grody to the Max[Date]!

Ben's question was a reasonable one: Hello, I am currently running into an issue on an Arabic localized box in which an ArgumentOutOfRangeException is being thrown when DateTime.ToString() is called on a DateTime object with the value set to MaxValue. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 9: The torrents of breaking CharNext/CharPrev

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 16, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 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

The "plate of shrimp" theory explains it

There is an old expression about how when it is time to railroad, people railroad (I've mentioned this issue before ). Others think of this as the plate of shrimp theory (if they are fans of the movie Repo Man , that is -- if so, they are cool). Anyway, Read More...
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Lt is TC (and TC is Title Case, or Total Crap -- take your pick!)

Jason's question was: The Unicode "Lt" character category -- this is the "title case" character category. It looks like the .Net BCL exposes this but the Win32 API doesn't. Am I correct in this? Thanks. Yes, Jason is spot on here. Like much of the Unicode Read More...
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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