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.

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.

7 November 2009 0 Comments

The two most important components of letting go and moving on are (1) letting go and (2) moving on

It was Friday afternoon when Santhosh (Santhosh Pillai, aka THE Santhosh, the guy who helped us with the collation story for Malayalam way back when) was asking a question. The question was: Hi: Is there an updated version of this page http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdinmal.htm available now that Malayalam has Atomic Chillus in Unicode 5.1

30 July 2009 0 Comments

I know I’ll Never say Never… again, at least

So, thinking about consequences of the CASING piece of Every character has a story #33: U+1e9e (CAPITAL SHARP S, Microsoft edition – Part 2) .

22 July 2009 0 Comments

The Letter Police can EAT MY SHORTS!

Regular reader from way back (and perhaps still regular reader!) Jan Kučera asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi again… I hope there are more people going to suggest a topic or place a question, otherwise I would feel a bit… alone