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Everyone: Repeat after me... We need both cases of Cherokee *in* the Unicode BMP! (2013/11/05)
… really is very little prior usage to go by, unless you count when they disunified Coptic from Greek, or added the third Georgian case; but both of those situations were kept in the BMP, even though the Georgian was put in.a new spot, kind of like th…
'They don't even know the f***ing word Bold, let alone what the B means!' (2013/03/18)
…quickly! Grzechooo on 18 Mar 2013 7:30 AM: Counting from third screenshot: Chinese, French, Russian, Greek, no idea, and Georgian. Amirite? Euro Micelli on 18 Mar 2013 7:55 AM: Ah... That second screenshot (first one after the English one) is in Ital…
The evolving Story of Locale Support, part 28: We finally fixed that 'Install New Languages' thing! (2012/10/27)
…(Albania)shqipe (Shqipëria) 041cbs-Latn-BABosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina) 0437ka-GEGeorgian (Georgia) ქართული (საქართველო) 0439hi-iNHindi (India)हिंदी (भारत) 040fis-ISIcelandic (Iceland)íslenska (Ísland) 0421id-I…
The evolving Story of Locale Support, part 28: We finally fixed that 'Install New Languages' thing! (2012/10/26)
…(Albania)shqipe (Shqipëria) 041cbs-Latn-BABosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina) 0437ka-GEGeorgian (Georgia) ქართული (საქართველო) 0439hi-iNHindi (India)हिंदी (भारत) 040fis-ISIcelandic (Iceland)íslenska (Ísland) 0421id-I…
The evolving Story of Locale Support, part 28: We finally fixed that 'Install New Languages' thing! (2012/10/26)
…nian (Albania)shqipe (Shqipëria) 041csq-ALBosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina) 0437ka-GEGeorgian (Georgia) ქართული (საქართველო) 0439hi-iNHindi (India)हिंदी (भारत) 040fis-ISIcelandic (Iceland)íslenska (Ísland) 0421id-I…
The Locales of Windows 8, not yet divvied up... (2012/08/21)
…llabics, Canada)ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (ᑲᓇᑕᒥ) iu-Latn-CAInuktitut (Latin, Canada)Inuktitut (Kanatami) ja-JPJapanese (Japan)日本語 (日本) ka-GEGeorgian (Georgia)ქართული (საქართველო) kk-KZKazakh (Kazakhstan)Қазақ (Қазақстан) kl-GLGreenlandic (Greenland)kalaallisut (Kalaall…
Script and Font Support in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (2012/03/19)
… Devanagari, Gujarati, Malayalam, Odia, Telugu) Segoe UI (certain weights): updated to add support for Arabic, Armenian, Georgian (Mkhedruli), Georgian Khutsuri, Hebrew scripts Among additional fonts added for previously-supported scripts is the Urdu…
Resolved: to get a better answer about resolution (screen resolution, that is!) (2012/03/15)
… below 96 DPI on 1024x768 and higher resolution for languages listed below Assamese Bengali (Bangladesh) Bengali (India) Georgian Gujarati Hindi Kannada Khmer Konkani Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Malayalam Marathi Nepali Oriya Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telu…
Resolved: to get a better answer about resolution (screen resolution, that is!) (2012/03/15)
… below 96 DPI on 1024x768 and higher resolution for languages listed below Assamese Bengali (Bangladesh) Bengali (India) Georgian Gujarati Hindi Kannada Khmer Konkani Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Malayalam Marathi Nepali Oriya Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telu…
A joke,and the exception that proves the rule.... (2011/10/19)
…slander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, a Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani…
If you find that GetLocaleInfo is driving you crazy, it may not be the right function to use (2011/08/04)
…ason that a pair of pliers would drive you crazy for fixing a hangnail.... This post brought to you by ჯ (U+10ef, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER JHAN) # Aaron Ballman on 16 Apr 2007 10:56 AM: Thank you very much for the excellent post! You bring up some poin…
The Locales of Windows 7, all divvied up (2011/05/24)
…رى (افغانستان) 0464fil-PHFilipino (Philippines)Filipino (Pilipinas) 0456gl-ESGalician (Galician)galego (galego) 0437ka-GEGeorgian (Georgia)ქართული (საქართველო) 0447gu-INGujarati (India)ગુજરાતી (ભારત) 0468ha-Latn-NGHausa (Latin, Nigeria)Hausa (Nigeria…
Falling back shouldn't mean falling over (though perhaps it does, a bit) (2010/12/14)
…of these letters can be found: Weird, huh? Of course, when something is in Armenian people wonder whether it is done for Georgian. But we are covered there: That Latin script text (Lari) is in Verdana, obviously. Though to be honest the currency supp…
{Insert appropriate pun/allusion to 'When I'm 64' here} (2010/09/17)
…are the ones that had been released as "32-bit-only, ever" versions, which now come in both 32 and 64: Albanian Assamese Georgian Gujarati Kannada Kazakh Konkani Malayalam Marathi Oriya Persian Punjabi Serbian (Cyrillic) Tamil Telugu Urdu Uzbek (Lati…
Looks like we had our LIPs done big time, this week! (2010/04/03)
…ce the origin of the language for a long time, and theories have proposed linking the language to languages as remote as Georgian). SCRIPT: Basque is written in Latin script. The letters c, q, v, w, y, which are only used for loan words are not consi…
For language settings, Walmart ain't all that; 7-Eleven is what gets it done! (2009/09/01)
…ch group is in each category: Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese Thai, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Indic, Georgian, Armenian Western Europe, Central Europe, Baltic, Greek, Cyrillic, Turkish Of course category 3 is always there now, ins…
In the name of God, St Michael, and St. George, I dub thee the SUBOptimus keyboard (2008/08/25)
…line. Once I installed that: I found I could switch the layout. All kinds of ones I tried out that I had installed, from Georgian: to Georgian again: to Arabic: to Hebrew: But then the bad news.... None of the IMEs I tried worked. And none of the Tab…
Google as the window, Windows as the door, the Doors as (never mind, this could take a while) (2008/07/16)
…I couldn't get it to work. Perhaps they are subtly steering me to Google? :-) This blog brought to you by ხ (U+10ee, aka GEORGIAN LETTER XAN) no comments…
The undocumented limits are the ones that can trip you (2008/05/17)
… under any other script (disappeared from Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabic, Cherokee, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Ogham, Oriya, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana and Yi). I wonde…
Alphabetically inappropriate emergencies (2008/04/20)
…re miracles. Similar effects are possible with most "curvy" scripts (e.g. the handwritten form of Hebrew, Tamil, Telugu, Georgian) moving into less curvy ones (e.g. Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari); the Latin alphabet really seems less suited to the wh…
The importance of Tagalog to Burmese, aka "Of course I'd lie to you, I'm a font!" (2008/04/18)
…U+0d05അMALAYALAM LETTER A Thai19U+0e01กTHAI CHARACTER KO KAI Lao20U+0e81ກLAO LETTER KO Tibetan21U+0f40ཀTIBETAN LETTER KA Georgian22U+10d0აGEORGIAN LETTER AN Ethiopic27U+1300ጀETHIOPIC SYLLABLE JA Canadian Syllabics28U+1401ᐁCANADIAN SYLLBICS E Cherokee…
While vacationing, idle random thoughts on the potential influence of Unicode on 'alphabet soup' (2007/12/25)
…re miracles. Similar effects are possible with most "curvy" scripts (e.g. the handwritten form of Hebrew, Tamil, Telugu, Georgian) moving into less curvy ones (e.g. Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari); the Latin alphabet really seems less suited to the wh…
Script and Font Support in Windows (2007/10/31)
…guage usage ArmenianEurasiaSylfaen DevanagariSouth AsiaMangalUsed for many langauges including Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit. GeorgianEurasiaSylfaen TamilSouth AsiaLatha Windows XP New scripts supported and associated fonts: New scriptsRegion where script…
The built-in attempt to support multi-monolingual keyboards is kinda broken (2007/06/17)
… the data behind the various locales that have the problem (most of them). This post brought to you by ძ (U+10eb, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER JIL) no comments…
If you find that GetLocaleInfo is driving you crazy, it may not be the right function to use (2007/04/15)
…ason that a pair of pliers would drive you crazy for fixing a hangnail.... This post brought to you by ჯ (U+10ef, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER JHAN) # Aaron Ballman on 16 Apr 2007 10:56 AM: Thank you very much for the excellent post! You bring up some poin…
You can kiss Vista if you want, because it has LIPs, too! (2007/02/01)
…t about Language Interface Packs (LIPs), and about two months ago that I did most recent one for Windows XP for ქართული (Georgian) where I voiced the question people had asked me asbout whether LIPs for XP were done with proof that there was at least…
SQL and the CLR: Part 1 (the things we can make work well) (2006/12/07)
…l start getting negative about all this in the next post in the series.:-) This post brought to you by ბ (U+10d1, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER BAN) no comments…
SQL and the CLR: Part 0 (2006/12/04)
…l try to cover the issues and problems that come up with each approach.... This post brought to you by დ (U+10d3, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER DON) no comments…
Curious Georg[ian] gets a LIP (2006/12/01)
…nnouncement by Steve Ballmer of the release of Vista simply closes the door. But clearly that is not the case, since the Georgian LIP has just been released! Some background info about about Georgian, via Soren: Number of speakers: 4.1 million Name i…
On building a list of keyboards (2006/09/03)
…,950 ,9,,0404:00000404,0404:e0080404,0404:E0010404 00000409 = %English_United_States% ,437 ,1,,0409:00000409 00000437 = %Georgian% ,437 ,16,5,0437:00000437,0409:00000409,0419:00000419 And those numbers at the end are a list of input methods. This is …
The myth of cross-product compatibility (2006/08/26)
…00000000 Indic-General-90, binary sort Syriac_90_BIN 0 0x0000045A 0x00000000 Syriac-90, binary sort Hmmm... where is the Georgian? I mean, Georgian is a Unicode-only locale! Ok, we will try a slightly different query: SELECT name, COLLATIONPROPERTY(n…
Decimal vs. hexadecimal LCIDs, backcompat, and being weird (2006/08/21)
…r and verifies that the string generator can, well, generate strings for each of them. I hit a weird case for collation: Georgian_Modern_Sort_BIN When I run the following: declare @collation as varchar(60) select @collation = 'Georgian_Modern_Sort_BI…
Sometimes, uppercasing sucks (2006/08/18)
Case differences in casing scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Ecclesastical Georgian, Coptic, Glagolitic, etc.) ought to be easy. But it's not. And not just for the reasons I have talked about in the past.…
When will we support Rongo-Rongo? (2006/07/27)
…d. In the end of the 2nd millennium BC and first centuries of the 1st millennium BC (the Late Bronze Age) was the oldest Georgian Kingdom of Kolkheti, where the Golden Fleece was sought by Jason and the Argonauts, in the 6th century BC _ 7th century …
More on case insensitivity and its intuitivality (2006/06/05)
…f characters that it is not properly handling across other cased scripts from Cyrillic to Greek to Coptic to Armenian to Georgian. Note: since I honestly do not know if this is the case, I hesistate to say whether Apple is lame on this point or not -…
No Georgians or Armenians goed to the blog? (2006/05/28)
…ople would simply not notice -- just as we never notice when language is correct, compared to when it is not. So, if any Georgians or Armenians are out there reading this, do you have light to shed on my "suppositions of a young child" about the geni…
Changing the user interface language at runtime? (2006/05/27)
…you have to do it. Keep your eyes out for an upcoming post on this soon! This post brought to you by "჻" (U+10fb, a.k.a. GEORGIAN PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR) # Rosyna on 27 May 2006 8:38 PM: Would this ever be a wise thing to do? If this is for an applicati…
Hebrew punctuation on the keyboard layout? (2006/05/23)
…brew. For example the Windows XP Armenian layouts use the colon rather than the Armenian full stop. Similarily the WinXP Georgian layout lacks the U+10FB Georgian Paragraph Separator. # Haber on 29 May 2006 3:00 PM: To Ilya-- hear, hear! It's about t…
It may not always end with ის or ისა, either (2006/04/09)
…t always end with ի, I thought I would post another example, and though I cannot speak too much more intelligently about Georgian than I can Armenian, it will prove to be as hard of a case to research without that knowledge.... Georgian is a language…
The big font list in Windows (2006/04/04)
…het MSLatin/Greek/CyrillicLatin, Greek, Cyrillic VerdanaLatin/Greek/CyrillicLatin, Greek, Cyrillic SylfaenOtherArmenian, GeorgianLatin, Greek, Cyrillic Plantagenet CherokeeOtherCherokeeLatin NyalaOtherEthiopicLatin DaunPenhOtherKhmerLatin MoolBoranOt…
Punctuation keys can make lousy shortcuts (2006/04/02)
… Lithuanian IBM (00000427) Farsi (00000429) Vietnamese (0000042a) Armenian Eastern (0000042b) FYRO Macedonian (0000042f) Georgian (00000437) Faeroese (00000438) Devanagari - INSCRIPT (00000439) Maltese 47-key (0000043a) Norwegian with Sami (0000043b)…
Oh Kannada... (ಕನ್ನಡ) (2006/03/16)
…where tagged "Windows Language Interface Pack Available Soon" (I have removed the ones released meantime): - Afrikaans - Georgian - Maltese - Sepedi (Northern Sotho) - Norwegian (Nynorsk) - Punjabi - Quechua - Telugu - Tswana - Urdu - Xhosa - Zulu No…
Traditional versus modern sorts (2006/03/12)
…g for other reasons -- stay tuned for a future blog post. :-) But there are several other interesting ones to ponder.... Georgian is a good example -- there are four letters that do not appear in modern use but can appear in older documents. So the '…
Popularity hurts objectivity (2005/12/31)
… limitations/issues/bugs in language/locale-specific formatting, keyboards, locale data, calendars, and/or collation for Georgian, Armenian, Latvian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, and others. And although I am not a linguist, I do have those pesky de…
Oops, we did it again (2005/11/30)
…Ps. And the following languages where marked "Windows Language Interface Pack Available Soon": Afrikaans Bengali Bosnian Georgian Kannada Konkani Malayalam Maltese Maori Sepedi (Northern Sotho) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Punjabi Quechua Telugu Tswana Urdu X…
FAT/FAT32 oddness on Win2000 (2005/09/28)
…bout surrogate support though). # Michael S. Kaplan on 29 Sep 2005 10:26 AM: This must be the LFN though, or things like Georgian would never work, right?…
The Is* Unicode script ranges in .NET's RegEx (2005/09/13)
…e the ones as of Whidbey. Note that they are only up to Unicode 4.0, so that blocks added in Unicode 4.1 such as the new Georgian Nushkui range (U+2d00 to U+2d2f). There might also be a few ranges that are a kittle smaller than they ought to be due t…
New in Vista Beta 1: Updated OS casing tables (2005/08/20)
…to get fixed. Finally, in Vista, the casing table is being updated to all of the Unicode 4.1 values. Now as a bonus, the Georgian issue gets addressed as a part of this update. :-) This post brought to you by "ⴀ" (U+2d00, GEORGIAN SMALL LETTER AN) On…
MSLU and the Windows Common Controls (2005/08/15)
…Windows NT emulator for the Windows 9x platform. It does not provide support for Unicode-only scripts like Devanagari or Georgian, or for any of the new supplementary characters that have been added to Unicode (specifically UTF-16) as surrogate pairs…
Don't roll your own GetDateFormat (2005/07/15)
…rse, you do have to actually use the functions to get these benefits.... This post brought to you by "჻" (U+10fb, a.k.a. GEORGIAN PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR) no comments…
LCMapString's *other* job (2005/06/24)
…nd CRT documentation are in the long, slow process of being fixed. The last word that I have to say about uppercasing is Georgian. LCMAP_LOWERCASE -- Maps uppercase characters to lowercase characters passing through other characters unchanged. Thus Ħ…
Similar descriptions does not mean similar methodologies (2005/05/08)
…rlier versions of Win9x. Kind of ironic when you note the small behavior differences between them all, huh? 2) Given the Georgian casing issue, it is a little sad that almost all of these functions that convert prior to comparison use a lowercasing o…
Intelligent unmanaged string comparison (2005/04/26)
… standard; there are only two good reasons to uppercase here: The operating system does it for other purposes; The whole Georgian thing on Windows; And there is a good reason to lowercase if you are doing full Unicode casing (which no one in Win32 or…
Invariant and Ordinal Redux (2005/04/13)
…ve a prominent place in that list (as will some of those casing issues). This post brought to you by "ლ" (U+10da, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER LAS) # Ben on 13 Apr 2005 10:39 PM: Michael, I appreciate your enthusiasm for picking out common programming erro…
When casing does not need to roundtrip in .NET (2005/04/04)
…ed I palmed that card?). I also spent some time back then talking about the problems with that one-way casing issue with Georgian when I asked people to Get off my [lower] case. And how people should use uppercase operations rather than lowercase if …
Even every version of XP Home is fully internationalized.... (2005/03/30)
…tional support, no matter what localized version the SKU is. So if you have XP Home then you have the support for Tamil, Georgian, Punjabi, Russian, Greek, Traditional Chinese, Bulgarian, Afrikaans, Catalan, Korean, Basque, Vietnamese, Spanish, Thai,…
Dere are qvestions? In zat case... (2005/03/10)
…gs will compare as equivalent. Yes? # Michael Kaplan on Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:58 AM: Exactly. Oh, there is also the Georgian bug (mentioned earlier in this blog) but Georgian may not be on your list, either.... But do not minimize the performanc…
Language groups -- the vestigial tail of NLS (2005/02/16)
…ABIC 0x000d // Arabic #define LGRPID_VIETNAMESE 0x000e // Vietnamese #define LGRPID_INDIC 0x000f // Indic #define LGRPID_GEORGIAN 0x0010 // Georgian #define LGRPID_ARMENIAN 0x0011 // Armenian This list will help you start feeling the confusion. They …
What makes a string meaningful? (2005/02/03)
…he utility of support of the collation of meaningful strings on Windows. This post brought to you by "ქ" (U+10e5, a.k.a. GEORGIAN LETTER KHAR) no comments…
How [case-]insensitive (apologies to Frank Sinatra) (2005/01/16)
…, I could be missing details): NT 3.51 ---> Some weird mappings that did not match Unicode were in the file, including a Georgian mapping that roundtrips between upper and lower case NT 4.0 ---> Some additions, and most weird mappings removed (though…
Putting your ducks in a row (2004/12/18)
…ew Alef (א) Bet (בּ) Vet (ב) Gimel (ג) Daled (ד) compared to the Armenian Ayb (Ա) Ben (Բ) Gim (Գ) Da (Դ) compared to the Georgian An (ა) Ban (ბ) Gan (გ) Don (დ) obviously have some sort of shared heritage of ordering. At this point we just do it this…
Get off my [lower] case! (or: Casing, the 1st) (2004/12/02)
…p frequently when people combine the above incorrect technique with extensive test passes). Basically, the issue is that Georgian has spent many years in the Unicode Standard with two scripts encoded, despite the fact that there are three scripts exi…
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