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My name is Michael Kaplan and I work for Корпорация Майкрософт

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"If you haven't had sex is six months..." the IM read

The mail I got the other day from Brett was pretty amusing (reposted uncensored with his permission, with no hint as to whether he was Anonymous1 or Anonymous2: Regards this conversation … anonymized for obvious reasons … Anonymous 1 [10:09 AM]: If you Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 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

I İ ı i before Ѐ ѐ unless you ask Y y ʏ

I was asked the other day what I thought about string comparisons. What with all the different recommendations floating around, all of the different possibilities, and all the unclear guidelines, the question was whether there was a succinct way to describe Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:01 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

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

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

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
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