Emoticon interoperability can be a nightmare. Or hilarious. Whichever!
Claudia and I are using two different kinds of smartphones.I use the HTC Arrive, which is running Windows Phone 7.5.She uses the HTC Rhyme, which is running Android.I'm Sprint and she's Verizon, but the carrier differences are minor.The real difference I notice is in the emoticons!Becaise those... More...
Thursday, May 24 Michael S. Kaplan
Claudia and I are using two different kinds of smartphones.I use the HTC Arrive, which is running Windows Phone 7.5.She uses the HTC Rhyme, which is running Android.I'm Sprint and she's Verizon, but the carrier differences are minor.The real difference I notice is in the emoticons!Becaise those... More...
Thursday, May 24 Michael S. Kaplan
The relationship between the 'United States - International' keyboard layout and the Euro....
No, the title of this blog is not any sort of riddle!Almost no Dutchman (or for that matter Dutchwoman!) ever voluntarily uses the "Dutch" keyboard.You know, this keyboard: They really don't like it.Not even a little bit.Not even at all!What they do largely prefer is the United States - Int... More...
Wednesday, May 23 Michael S. Kaplan
No, the title of this blog is not any sort of riddle!Almost no Dutchman (or for that matter Dutchwoman!) ever voluntarily uses the "Dutch" keyboard.You know, this keyboard: They really don't like it.Not even a little bit.Not even at all!What they do largely prefer is the United States - Int... More...
Wednesday, May 23 Michael S. Kaplan
Special casing of locale specific number formatting....
The question the other day was:My code calls GetNumberFormat(“0”) and this returns “.00” on a zh-cn system and “0.00” on an English system. We take the pre-decimal portion of the string and end up with a null string in the zh-cn locale.Are there flags to GetNumb... More...
Tuesday, May 22 Michael S. Kaplan
The question the other day was:My code calls GetNumberFormat(“0”) and this returns “.00” on a zh-cn system and “0.00” on an English system. We take the pre-decimal portion of the string and end up with a null string in the zh-cn locale.Are there flags to GetNumb... More...
Tuesday, May 22 Michael S. Kaplan
