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Shawn Steele's thoughts about Windows and .Net Framework globalization APIs
.Net v2.0 (Whidbey) has some changed culture month/day names.
Some of the month/day names in the culture data weren't right in Everett, so those have been fixed....
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 04/05/2005
CultureInfo Caching and ClearCachedData()
Windows and the .Net Framework work a bit differently when it comes to accessing culture/locale...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/30/2005
UTF8 Security and Whidbey Changes
Unicode is always in the process of evolving, and some changes have been made to UTF8 in the last...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/24/2005
"Precomposed" and "Composite" Characters in Windows APIs
The term Composite and Precomposed in the Windows docs give me trouble, so I suspect they give other...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/23/2005
MultiByteToWideChar ignores MB_PRECOMPOSED behavior for UTF-8 and UTF-7
UTF7 and UTF8 conversion by MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte is strictly Unicode to...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/23/2005
How the various CultureInfo names and tags behave.
With the introduction of sort names and custom cultures in the .Net Framework 2.0 (Whidbey) a few...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/22/2005
Try to identify cultures by string name instead of LCID
It is a good idea to avoid using the locale LCID when referring to cultures in .Net. Instead, use...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/22/2005
Whidbey Beta 2 bug with CreateSpecificCulture() for Neutral Custom Cultures.
There's a bug in Whidbey Beta 2 where CreateSpecificCulture() will return invariant for any neutral...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/22/2005
Don't Use Encoding.Default
So you want to save some data and don't know which Encoding to use. My biggest suggestion is please...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/15/2005
What's the difference between an Encoding, Code Page, Character Set and Unicode?
Encoding, Code Page and Character Set are often used interchangeably, even when that isn't strictly...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/15/2005
"So Why Isn't Latin Shipped With the Framework?"
Lots of people ask this question, replacing Latin with their favorite language....
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/14/2005
Whidbey .Net 2.0 Custom Culture Example (Beta 2)
Here’s an example of how to create a custom culture in Whidbey. Its changed a bit from earlier...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/08/2005
What's with Encoding.GetMaxByteCount() and Encoding.GetMaxCharCount()?
The behavior of Encoding.GetMaxByteCount() changed somewhat between .Net version 1.0/1.1 and version...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/02/2005
About My Blog
I don't plan to blog very often, but I will try to address lots of the issues and questions that...
Author: Shawn Steele (MSFT) Date: 03/01/2005