31 March 2010 0 Comments

OS level support for non-Gregorian calendars?

Regular reader and collation hero of days past Santhosh Pillai asked over in the Suggestion Box: Question: Does Windows 7 provide OS level support for any non-Gregorian support, such as switching your calendar?

26 March 2010 0 Comments

Yes, Ivo^H^H^HVirginia, there is a zh-HK *and* a zh-TW

Over in the Suggestion Box, Ivo asks: I am working on a software that has to support all languages available for Windows.

7 March 2010 1 Comment

Farsi? Persian? You’ll be getting some LIP about it either way

Hey, guess what? Microsoft released the Persian (Farsi) Language Interface Pack for Windows 7! Now this LIP must be installed over English; it is only released in the 32-bit flavor

2 March 2010 0 Comments

Seeing double? You’re not drunk; you’re just running pseudo! (aka Announcement: Pseudo Day!)

Some of you regular readers 1 might recall LOCALE_SDECIMAL?

25 February 2010 0 Comments

The inappropriate nature of getting the Feh out of Uighur, Windows 7 edition

No big news today, this is an update less sensational than the original story. The equivalent story in newspaper terms would be buried on page 20, even if the original story was front page headlines.