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.
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.
Posted: Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 | Categories: Internationalization
Although the application is Unicode, it seems that the RichText controls hosted by dialogs cannot accept Unicode strings from the API.
Posted: Saturday, July 9th, 2005 | Categories: Localization, Windows
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.
Posted: Thursday, July 7th, 2005 | Categories: C/C++, Internationalization, Windows
I am starting to write my first application. No books, not nothing. Just jump and try to swim.
Posted: Friday, June 17th, 2005 | Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems
Making the Big (Mac) decisions: what to buy, what compiler, Carbon or Cocoa?
Posted: Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 | Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems
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 :-)
Posted: Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 | Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems
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).
Posted: Saturday, June 11th, 2005 | Categories: Windows
Explains why the ANSI-Unicode applications separation, and why the limitations of ANSI applications cannot be solved without moving to Unicode.
Posted: Friday, March 18th, 2005 | Categories: C/C++, Windows
No need for explanation here. A skimpy one for now, but growing.
Posted: Sunday, March 6th, 2005 | Categories: Terminology, Various
First entry. What are my plans with this web site and other uninteresting thoughts.
Posted: Sunday, March 6th, 2005 | Categories: Various