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Shawn Steele's thoughts about Windows and .Net Framework globalization APIs

Some user account changes are coming

"For those of you who sign-in to comment on the MSDN Blogs, there is a change coming on January 27th...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 01/26/2011

How do I tell if a user's entering Unicode data into my ANSI app?

#1: Is there a really, really good reason you didn't compile your app with the unicode flag? Just...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 12/31/2010

IDNA - Is it fussball or fußball?

[Update - Note: A coworker pointed out that it's really Fussball or Fußball, since it's a...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 12/08/2010

Short Date Formats Don't Always Fit Neat Patterns

I'm often asked something like "What's the date separator for locale XXX?" Well, not every locale...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 10/26/2010

Unicode 6.0 has a new Indian Rupee Symbol, how do I get it?

Well you can't, not yet anyway. Unicode 6.0 adds the new Indian Rupee Symbol at U+20B9 (see...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 10/19/2010

Quick Custom Culture to Change Euro Currency Symbol

I was asked for a quick sample of how to build a culture, so here it is: 1.) Start an elevated...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 07/22/2010

The Square Boxes in My Blog's Title

Someone pointed out the boxes in my blog's title. That's a script some fans use for Klingon, but...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/22/2010

There're now "real" IDN TLDs....

https://موقع.وزارة-الات...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/11/2010

4 IDN ccTLDs (country code top level domain)s have been approved.

This is old news, but I didn't blog about it yet. 4 IDN ccTLDs have been approved:...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 02/11/2010

Shawn Dropped the Space Needle

111 Around work I'm well known for the Lego in my office (counting in the 10's of thousands of...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 02/02/2010

UTF-8 usage on web approaching 50%

Google posted an interesting chart:...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 01/28/2010

Most combining characters in a Unicode glyph/character/whatever

Recently on the Unicode list someone asked basically what the biggest number of combining characters...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 01/25/2010

The FUD of IDN and Homographs

I was pointed to this article...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 11/23/2009

SetLocaleInfo() is horrid, don't use it!

I just ran into a bug with SetLocaleInfo() use, and it pretty much reminded me that SetLocaleInfo()...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 11/06/2009

IDNA2008 / IDNAbis on Windows 7, Vista, Net, etc.

Some people have asked what they should do to support IDNA2008 on Microsoft platforms. We provide...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 10/27/2009

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net v4 Beta released

If you go to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx there's now a Visual Studio 2010...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 10/19/2009

Missing International Setting Registry Key?

Some Zune users ran into a strange problem https://forums.zune.net/2/3/518796/ShowPost.aspx and it...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/29/2009

A Cool Hard Drive Fix

Well, I should say all the caveats like "don't try this at home," and "it'll destroy your data," and...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/28/2009

Japanese Calendars, How do I Test Support for Additional Eras?

The Japanese Calendar is labeled by the reign of the current emporer.  Windows has supported 4...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/24/2009

Oversimplification of EAI/IMA (International eMail Addresses)

A couple months ago I blogged about EAI Email Address Internationalization/Internationalized Email...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 08/18/2009

What is Title Case?

Disclaimer: I'm not an English teacher (that's my mom), so I'm sure my description of title casing...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 08/18/2009

Alternate encoding names recognized by .Net / IE

If you run the sample from...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 08/18/2009

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A helpful reader pointed out I don't really know Klingon. PS. I just checked out your blog (very...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 06/08/2009

Writing "fields" of data to an encoded file.

The moral here is "Use Unicode," so you can skip the details below if you want :)A common problem...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 06/01/2009

Locale Builder and Two Letter ISO name and Three Letter Windows Language Name

When you use the Microsoft Locale Builder tool to build a custom locale, it asks for a lot of...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/14/2009

Cheating to UNinstall Custom Cultures / Locales

In Cheating To Install Custom Cultures, I mentioned how to add the custom cultures without using...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/14/2009

A Pet Peeve of Mine

One of my pet peeves is software that is too restrictive about installing. The #1 compatibility...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/12/2009

Don't use MB_COMPOSITE, MB_PRECOMPOSED or WC_COMPOSITECHECK

This pretty much demonstrates another reason to Use Unicode, but if you do need to use some...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/06/2009

Front page uses windows-1252, shouldn't it be iso-8859-1?

I received this question: I use Frontpage for my webpage design and FP automatically inserts the...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 11/13/2008

Our Unicode Globalization Windows Language Support Presentation

Recently Peter Constable and I gave a presentation on Windows Language Support, which I've attached...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/23/2008

Our Unicode & Globalization Silverlight Presentation

Recently Peter Constable and I gave a presentation on Windows Language Support, which I've attached...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/23/2008

How come Substring(0, xxx) matches something, but StartsWith returns false?

I was asked how a string can match a substring of another string, yet StartsWith can return false?...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/23/2008

World Wide Telescope is really cool

This isn't really related to anything I talk about, but I thought that Microsoft Research's World...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/22/2008

Silverlight Time Zone World Clock (Very Beta) Demo

For my presentation of globalization of Silverlight at the Unicode Conference I wanted to make a...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/10/2008

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc721609.aspxhttps://silverlight.net/getstartedhttps://msdn.m...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/09/2008

I'm at the Unicode Conference

As I've said before, I encourage "Using Unicode" for data. So I've gone to the Unicode conference...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 09/09/2008

About working here

Sometimes people ask about my job. I've been here for a while and like what I do. I have great...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2008

Go Global Developer Center on MSDN

One of the biggest internationalization challenges is for developers to learn about...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 07/09/2008

How Come My "ț" (or Another Character) Doesn't Work in Code Page XXX?

First of all, as I always suggest, Use Unicode when practical :) Then you don't run into these kinds...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 06/04/2008

Where to Look Up Information About Microsoft Code Pages?

First of all, remember to Use Unicode when practical :) Sometimes older applications don't allow...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 06/04/2008

Unicode use on the web

Google posted a blog about unicode use on the web...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 05/05/2008

Commenting on Comments

Wow, I see a flurry of comments, I guess I was out. Usually the system asks me to approve the...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 04/29/2008

Code page xxx isn't available on my (windows XP or 2003) computer, what happened?

Use Unicode :) Beginning with windows Vista all code pages are installed by default, however in...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 04/29/2008

Server 2008 U+FFFD behavior for unknown or illegal UTF-8 sequences.

In my post Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance I mentioned that the behavior of...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/10/2008

MSDN has this new nifty Code Gallery place for samples and the like, so I stuck my custom locale...

Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/05/2008

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