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LoadKeyboardLayout is a 00bada55 puppy dog tail wagger of a function

There are many functions in the Win32 API that really amount to little more than requests. The caller is asking for something, perhaps passing parameters to give specifics on what the caller wants. And the caller will usually get something back. It will Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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ImmGetDescription: another casualty of the IMM to TSF migration

VB expert and long time compatriot/comrade Bill McCarthy asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hey Michka, Can you tell us why ImmGetDescription seems to return zero length on Vista ? Is it broken ? Thanks. It's funny how many people still know me as Michka Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

On reverting unexplained spontaneous alteration of language

Cheekheon asked via the Contact link: Hi, I have a NEC Desktop Computer running Windows XP Home Edition SP 2 with an ATI X300 (RV370) display card. A few months ago, I did a security update from Microsoft and was advised to update my ATI display driver. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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Being smart, by not trying to be clever

There are times that Microsoft Word is too smart for its own good The message I received via the Contact link was: Dear Michael, First, I would like to thank you for your great BLOG! Well done! I've spent many hours reading and studying various articles Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Strange control over CTRL and control characters

Via the Contact link, Rich asks: Hi Michael, I've been reading your (very detailed and useful) series on keyboard layouts. There's one thing that's puzzling me with respect to the post about the Caps Lock state ( Getting all you can out of a keyboard Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

The sort order of the Language Bar (and Michael is in heaven on this one, other than...)

At this point, I am convinced that people are afraid of the Suggestion Box . Because even if the question would completely make sense to be there, people still send it to me via the Contact link and thus become part of a big file of potentiasl questions Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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Not only going BACK, but changing how to do it

Late last week, Jan Kučera asked over in the Suggestion Box (which I am thinking of renaming to Jan's Place , soon!): Hello.. I have a short one today: Could I use the MSKLC to make for example the B key to act as backspace key (and if so, how :))? Thanks! Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 5:21 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments
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Does MS just make up these punctuation-challenged keyboards to piss people off?

Regular reader Jan Kučera asks over in the Suggestion Box: Who does create the keyboard layouts? I'm using the Tamil one, which is nice to play with, yes, but... do people really need to install another layout (and constantly switch between them) just Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

See? The MSKLC support story is as easy as 1 2 3 4...

Over in the Suggestion Box, Gene Sorensen asked: Dear Michael, Thank you for an incredibly helpful tool in the MSKLC, and for your helpful blog. I have two questions related to the MSKLC: 1. Will the MSKLC install into 64-bit Vista? We are using it in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:06 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

Behond the Table Driven Text Service, Part 14 (Don't expect too much from numbers)

Prior posts in the series: 0 (You have to start somewhere) 1 (Starting with a dictionary simple in every way) 2 (Three ways to convert!) 3 (Where do keystrokes come in?) 4 (Specifying when to modify, if not how) 5 (All about the language, baby!) 6 (it Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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Tamil language support in Windows? You can't SHRII-k yet, but it's getting better

So back in Unicode 4.1, Unicode added ஶ ( U+0bb6 , aka TAMIL LETTER SHA). Then there was a {ahem} brief delay, after which Vista shipped. For the record, the Latha font was updated prior to ship. . Two points for Microsoft Typography! Originally I thought Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 8:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

How many electoral votes does the state of implementation have?

Regular readers, as you might imagine, tend to come and go. Sometimes, like in the case of people like Suzanne E. McCarthy , they seem to drop off the face of the planet and you never hear from them again. Even their Blogs are inactive. Since indeed Suzanne's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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Can I get your [font]signature on this, please?

Now regular readers know I have talked about the FONTSIGNATURE structure and the LOCALESIGNATURE structure in the past, starting way back in 2005 in blogs like Parameter confusion #2a and It isn't a FONTSIGNATURE, darn it! , both of which refer to the Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

What do you get when you put a Hebrew on top of a Russian? (aka What lies beneath can bite you on the ass)

So it was actually a couple of days ago (in the blog titled What a tangled web we weave when a KLID from an HKL we must receive ) that I painted a picture that would cause any normal, sane developer charged with working with keyboard layouts to either Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments

The difference between Six Sigma and Sigma Diaresis is one must never fail; the other seems to do so by default

As the regular font ninjas and font experts and font mavens will likely be quick to agree with me about, I am not a font maven, expert, or ninja. But every once in a while I can contribute productively. :-) The other day, over on the VOLT users community Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments
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