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

16 September 2009 0 Comments

If it ain’t a soup question, keep it the hell out of the room

The other day, in “What kind of soup?” is not exactly a soup question, is it? , I mentioned that I might have a technical example of the issue of Not exactly a soup question, is it? so think of this blog as me finally getting around to doing that

6 August 2009 0 Comments

English is just another language — so Windows 7 released all 36 at once!

In case you haven’t noticed from the other gazillion blogs and tweets, Windows 7 released today. Windows has released a bunch of times, so what makes this one different, exactly

28 May 2009 0 Comments

"Size matters, and at 8.25, yours simply isn’t big enough," she said….

I am going straight to hell for the title on this one, I know it…. The question, asked on a discussion list primarily concerned with WinForms, went something like this: I am facing some issue regarding showing right Japanese chars. It get truncated from bottom for few chars