The evolving Story of Locale Support, part 24: I Adar you! Hell, I Double Adar you! (Windows 8 ed.)

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2012/06/07 07:13 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/06/07/10316511.aspx

Previous blogs from this series:

• part 23 (Tamazight? Outta sight!)
• part 22 (Digit Substitution 2.0)
• part 21 (The Windows 8 Hijripalooza extraordinaire!)
• part 20 (Yes, it's Bangla. Not Bengali!)
• part 19 (In honor of International Mother Language Day...)
• part 18 (Two scripts that share ten digits can be trouble)
• part 17 (Today I feel like translating you more than before)
• part 16 (We can't scale to a Xishuangbanna Dai locale, but…)
• part 15 (Fixing our listings up in Windows 8!)
• part 14 (Tifinagh, Tamazight, and Berber? Oh my!)
• part 13 (Divvying up locales, yet again!)
• part 12 (Logic dictates that we keep a sense of proportion about the RATIO)
• part 11 (What language is that keyboard for?)
• part 10 (Perhaps it is best to think of it as unintelligent design?
• part 9 (Nastaleeq vs. Nastaliq? Either way, Windows 8 has got it!
• part 8 ([Finally] taking care of some [more] languages in Pakistan
• part 7 (That would be a 'call and a raise' for Hawaiian)
• part 6 (Behind the Cherokee Phonetic layout in Windows 8)
• part 5 (...until the decision was made to not refuse to add it)
• part 4 (working beyond one's bugs, and the case for an MSKLC update)
• part 3 (working beyond one's bugs, the setup)
• part 2 (raising the roof on keyboards)
• part 1 (Some people don't want to double-d's)
• part 0 (The introduction)

Now that we are at the Windows 8 Release Preview, you might figure there are no surprises left on the locale front.

On Friday, April 25, 2008, I wrote I Adar you! Hell, I Double Adar you!, talking about the Hebrew calendar.

And about the leap year support ion the Hebrew calendar.

And about the month of Adar (אדר), which has a cloned version of itself during those leap years.

And about the various and sundry bugs in pretty much every version we ever shipped of Windows, the .,NET Framework, and Outlook surrounding the way Adar (אדר) is supported.

But something quite interesting happened in Windows 8.

We got the Windows.Globalization Namespace!

One of the very cool developers working on it sent me an email.

On April 14th, 2012, actually.

Or perhaps I should say כ״ב בְּנִיסָן תשע״ב, instead. Since we're talking about the Hebrew calendar and all. :-)

Anyway, Eric asked me how I felt about the Windows.Globalization Hebrew calendar returning

during regular years, and

during leap years.

Needless to say, I was quite pleased!

Suddenly, the "Modern", "Metro" Windows 8 had fixed one of our oldest longest standing calendar bugs...

I Double Adar you to not be excited thinking about Windows 8 calendar support!

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