18 June 2009 0 Comments

Those keys aren’t going to be extended; they’re dead!

Rimas Kudelis asked over in the Suggestion Box: Hi Michael, I was wondering if you know if there are any plans to extend the Windows keyboard driver in future? In particular, I’m interested about the limitations related to dead keys. Back in 2006 (in Only ONE WCHAR per dead key) you said that the dead key infrastructure is actually here only for legacy reasons

27 May 2009 0 Comments

The whole truth about MB_PRECOMPOSED and MB_COMPOSITE

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I’d have skipped this med for sure). I am not even on the team that owns this code any more and I didn’t own it when I was then

18 February 2009 0 Comments

In search of the Swedish Tipping Point….

By necessity, my blogs are often about something on the micro scale — one customer report, one phenomenon that interests me, one event, one bug, one concert, one wheelchair, one function. Even the occasional groupings of these things are quite small.