Because, unlike Andrew West, *I* have a sense of history... 😄

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2013/04/16 15:04 +01:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2013/04/16/10411321.aspx

It was back on February 16th, 2005 at 4:55am that I blogged LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME is so not an ISO-639 code.

And it was over a year later, on September 27, 2006 at 3:01am that I blogged LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME is more than just an ISO-639 code.

And then, it was just six years later that Andrew Glass's Windows 8 Language Profile work, and its Windows keyboard list replaced Cicero's older admittedly buggy one:

And although I begged and pleaded with Andrew Glass to keep the venerable LOCALE_SABBRERVLANGNAME abbreviation system in his new WinlangDB keyboard and language lists, he decided he had a better idea.

Maybe he did, I don't know.

I know that Andrew Glass has no sense of history. 😄

But Andrew Glass dropped the old system captured in fifteen versions of Windows spanning eighteen years without a second thought.

In case you were wondering whether I am Andrew Glass's manager, I can assure you that this proves I am not.

Because if I was, I would have made Andrew Glass dump his new system. 😄

And had Andrew Glass refused, I would have made sure his next review reflected on this issue at length. 😄

I did mention it to the person who is his manager, but he took Andrew Glass's side of the difference of opinion. 😄

Well played, Andrew Glass. Well played...

In fact, all that remains of the old system that took the first two letters of the LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME, the field that is so not an ISO 639 code and yet is in the end so much more than it, is a vestigial holdover, an appendix in the Project|Properties... dialog of MSKLC that contains two letters in a small, non-descript blue box:

Now I don't want you to read too much in to how I filled in the dialog all passive/agressivelike. 😄

This MSKLC dialog predates Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 by a lot of years.

It took me no more than a few hours to do that dialog, designed to mimic the Cicero behavior.

If and when my MSKLC 1.5 Passion Project I mentioned before here and here is released, if I 

• can mimic the new behavior properly, and
• it fits in the dialog without making it too much bigger, and 
• I can do it in a few hours, then

then I just might mimic the new UI. 😄

Or I might do both, most likely choose which one based on the platform on which you are running (WinLangDB only exists in >= Windows 8, after all!).

Because, unlike Andrew West, *I* have a sense of history... 😄

This blog was sponsored by 😄 aka U+1f604 aka 'SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND SMILING EYES', who was featured prominently in the blog and hopes this might be just the break to start his Hollywood acting career so he can stop waiting tables to pay off his student loans...

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