Internationalization Cookbook

Force maven “Run Configurations” to show colors

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:20 +0000

This is not needed starting with Eclipse 2022-09 (4.25). From Eclipse 2022-09 the official Eclipse Console supports “ANSI escape sequences”. And the maven support was updated to take advantage of that functionality.

Privacy Policy for my Android Applications

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:47:31 +0000

My applications don’t collect, steal, store, send or share any of your data, period.

Dark Eclipse – for those tired of white :-)

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:33:49 +0000

A dark theme for Eclipse, for documents and UI itself.

Color logging with Maven

Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:46:23 +0000

Starting with version 3.1.0 maven uses slf4j for logging.
This opens the gate for a lot of nice tweaks.
One of them is the ability to log using colors, matching the logging level.

JavaScript Internationalization API

Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:04:29 +0000

ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification (ECMA-402 Edition 1.0) was approved in December 2012. What is the status of browser support?

My Eclipse Plugins & Java tools

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:35:13 +0000

How to install and what they do

Eclipse plugin – External Filter

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:12:37 +0000

This Eclipse plugin allows you to take text content from an Eclipse document, process it through an external tool, and the make the result available in Eclipse at the end.

Eclipse plugin – ANSI Escape in Console

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:07:56 +0000

This Eclipse plugin interprets the ANSI escape sequences to color the console output. This can be pretty handy when using something like jansi. But is also works if you output escape sequences directly from Java. Or from Perl, C++, or Groovy, or any other Eclipse hosted language.

License

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:50:28 +0000

MIT License

An internationalization checklist

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:48:14 +0000

My internationalization checklist. I have used it in many occasions, as reminder, and to put some structure in what I do.

Changing default “Warning Level” and “Treat Warnings as Errors” for Visual Studio wizards

Mon, 10 May 2010 07:22:06 +0000

Once in a while I create new projects using the Visual Studio wizards. Then one of the first think I do is go and change the “Warning Level” to 4 (default is 3) and change “Treat Warnings as Errors” to Yes (default is No). This is how you can do it once and for all.

ToUnicode - Automating some of the steps of Unicode code conversion (Windows)

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:50:59 +0000

A small tool that goes though C/C++ files and changes them to (almost) compile as Unicode.

TaskBarCmd - programmatically change the Windows Taskbar settings

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:13:59 +0000

This is a small tool to change Windows taskbar settings from command line (hide/show, set the “keep on top” option, etc.)

CharMapEx - Some kind of character map :-)

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:45:16 +0000

This is a small tool that started as a private investigation into the functionality of some Windows API, to grow into a “CharMap” with some extras.

How to localize an RC file?

Thu, 03 May 2007 21:44:28 +0000

You can find many articles on how to build a localized application, how to deal with resizing, you name it. But I could not find any clear documentation on exactly what are the parts that you should translate. So, here it is!

How to test if a user is Administrator on localized systems?

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:29:45 +0000

On some of the localized Windows version the names of the Administator uses and the Administrators group is translated. How to test in a locale-independent way if a user is Administrator?

Mojibake, question marks, and other troubles

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:00:26 +0000

Dealing with the most common character corruption problems in DBCS localization

Basic lingo

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:40:18 +0000

Tring to help you “grok” terms like character set, charset, coded character set, code page, encoding

Visual Studio Unicode projects

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:15:09 +0000

How to change a Visual Studio project to compile as Unicode

String API and internationalization

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:06:08 +0000

What string class/API is best for internationalization?

What is a “Unicode application”?

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:29:19 +0000

Is there such a thing? Suspense, controversy, and a surprising conclusion, in today’s episode.

“Reverse IME” (getting hiragana/katakana/pinyin/bopomofo from kanji)

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:04:30 +0000

Obtaining pronunciation information from Kanji using the MS IME API

Unicode .RC in VS 2005

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:37:40 +0000

Problems with Unicode in .RC files produced by the Visual Studio 2005 Resource Editor

Data internationalization

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:30:56 +0000

Most articles and books will teach you how to display data in a locale sensitive way. This article will try to show how to serialize or communicate in a locale insensitive way.

Problems using Unicode characters with RTF controls in dialogs

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:21:51 +0000

Although the application is Unicode, it seems that the RichText controls hosted by dialogs cannot accept Unicode strings from the API.

Customized GetNumberFormat and GetCurrencyFormat

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:55:42 +0000

The GetNumberFormat and GetCurrencyFormat Windows API accepts a pointer to a structure or NULL. But there is no API to fill the structures with the values matching a certain locale.

Starting Mac Programming - Chapter two - my first program

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:00:41 +0000

I am starting to write my first application. No books, not nothing. Just jump and try to swim.

Starting Mac Programming - Chapter one

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:00:29 +0000

Making the Big (Mac) decisions: what to buy, what compiler, Carbon or Cocoa?

Starting Mac Programming

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:00:25 +0000

I am moving to the dark side: learning some Mac programming. Not to become an expert, but at least to see how internationalization works in that part of the world :-)

Setting the user and system locales

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 05:20:39 +0000

One of the most basic operations. You will need to do this countless times if you have to use non-Unicode applications to manipulate localized data (for instance if you have to resize Japanese resources in Developer Studio .NET 2003 or earlier).

How SBCS-MBCS-Unicode application interact with Windows

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:45:55 +0000

Explains why the ANSI-Unicode applications separation, and why the limitations of ANSI applications cannot be solved without moving to Unicode.

Glossary

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 01:10:16 +0000

No need for explanation here. A skimpy one for now, but growing.

Getting started

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:00:00 +0000

First entry. What are my plans with this web site and other uninteresting thoughts.

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