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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

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

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

How are the Danes doing it?

WARNING: This blog has nothing whatsoever ¹ do with Nordic sex. Regular reader Santhosh Pillai had a question not too long ago that I found to be rather kick ass and cool, professionally speaking. It was: Hi, I am trying to figure out how these characters Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 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

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

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

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

UCS-2 to UTF-16, Part 7: If it makes the SQL Server columns too small then it made the Oracle columns either too smallER or too smallEST

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 Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:01 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

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

Grease is the word; ░░░░░░ not so much...

The question from, the other day was an interesting one. It was something like this: I’m trying to do a word-boundary check, and I noticed regex doesn’t handle boundaries correctly for some extended characters (░╤╞╬═╣etc.). A simple example is “\b░” which Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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