Anith Gopal

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

Apologies for the title (note to self: never author blog titles under the inflluence to try to appear as a cunning linguist!) So it was just the other day that Yong asked: Ok, so it looks like we got a regression (or a design change) on Vista/Windows 7 from Windows XP. On XP/W2K3: ============Start of regopts.txt============ [RegionalSettings] InputLocale = 0409:00000409,0404:E0020404 ============End of regopts.txt============ // Just having this adds for example the Chinese Traditional (ChangJie) keyboard. On Windows Vista SP2/W2K8 SP2 ============Start of regopts.xml============ <gs:GlobalizationServices xmlns:gs=”urn:longhornGlobalizationUnattend”>   <!– User List–>   <gs:UserList>     <gs:User UserID=”Current” CopySettingsToSystemAcct=”true” />   </gs:UserList>   <!–System locale–>   <gs:SystemLocale Name=”zh-TW”/>   <gs:InputPreferences>     <!–en-US–>       <gs:InputLanguageID Action=”add” ID=”0409:00000409″ Default=”true”/>     <!–zh-TW-ChangJie–>       <gs:InputLanguageID Action=”add” ID=”0404:E0020404″/>   </gs:InputPreferences> </gs:GlobalizationServices> ============End of regopts.xml============ It fails with: Unexpected Failure.  Unsupported parameter

So the other day a colleague over in C++-ville forwarded a bug report he was looking at, one he wanted my thoughts about. It went something like this: Repro Steps: + Change language in Control Panel under “Regional an Language Options” tab “Advanced” to Japanese + Make new c++ console project with MFC support + Change Character set to Multi-Byte (_MBCS) + Compile folowing Code (0xFC => “ü”):     char* test= “xfc”;     CString tt;     tt = test;     tt.MakeUpper(); + Run or Debug the program => Crashes when MakeUpper() is called. The result of running this code, as the last step mentions, is a crash in the “Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library”

So some people noticed that the Wubi IME that used to work on Windows wasn’t there anymore. You may be familiar with the story — it was there for them in XP but then for Vista (and Windows 7) it wasn’t. The funny thing for me about the Wubi IME is that when I hear the name I have trouble getting the Mr

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