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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

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

y? Because it's documented that way!

The question yesterday was: For date formatting and parsing APIs, is there a difference between lower- and upper-case Ys? (I.e., “yyyy” v. “YYYY”.) The articles on MSDN seem to be inconclusive. Errr. That's an interesting question, I think. Whether one Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 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

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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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

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

From ____ to ____ to MUI to ELS -- World Ready @ the PDC!

If you are the PDC in Los Angeles, you may have seen Yaniv Feinberg from the Globalization Services team and Erik Fortune from the Multilingual User Interface team, who did a 75-minute presentation entitled Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:00 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Ready... set... Reboot Redux, part Deux!

Now it all started with Ready... set... Reboot! back in February of 2005, where the issues of reboot and the default system locale were first discussed. And then the follow-up ( Ready... set... Reboot Redux ), which talks about how sometimes you might Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:31 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

Epitomizing the indubitably ephemeral nature of the conceptual link

It was last last week when colleague, comrade, and regular reader Jonas Barklund sent me some mail: Subject: All links on page http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/05/30/610605.aspx appear dead A victim of one of MSDN’s total reshuffles? Well I Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

When swimming in a sea of CONTEXT, applications can drown (and there is no lifeguard)

Now I have talked about the good, the bad, the ugly, the pretty, the ins, and the outs of digit substitution many times over the past few years: 01 December 2004 -- Crossing the DIGITal divide... 24 April 2005 -- Is Whidbey's international support finished? Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

How to miss the point through translation (and on italicizing, or not)

It was a little more than two years ago in When the font is the boss of you that I talked about how the ClearType font Meiryo took the battle between people who try to italicize Japanese text and people who think that this makes Japanese really really Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Vérité (add MUI support in a service pack) ou oser (tell me whether returning 'vrai' was intentional)?

Do French teenagers play "Truth or Dare" while growing up in France? Or is that just an American thing? The actual question seemed innocuous enough. It wasn't: We are noticing that on non-us XPSP3 system, when "Regional and Language Settings" (first tab) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

The hacks of yesterday become the workarounds of today when corroborated by the features of tomorrow

So the question that came in was along the following lines: We have Windows Server 2003 installed with Turkish regional settings. I have to change it to English US. But if we do it through the Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 1 Comments
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