The Old New Thing

January 15, 2009 - The Old New Thing

If you’re at a Thai restaurant with a Thai person who’s ordering food in Thai, and she asks you if you like your food spicy, think twice before answering

January 15, 2009 Jan 15, 2009 01/15/09
Raymond Chen
I think you see where this is going. I'm at a Thai restaurant with my sister-in-law, who is Thai. She's talking with the waitress in Thai, and she discovers that the restaurant's cook is someone she knows. And since she's from Thailand, she assumes the task of ordering the food, since she knows what's good and what isn't. During their ...

What is this magic setting that synthesizes Unicode from non-Unicode?

January 15, 2009 Jan 15, 2009 01/15/09
Raymond Chen
Commenter dan g. wonders how Windows can treat non-Unicode applications as Unicode via the Regional and Language Options control panel, specifically the part that lets you choose the Language for non-Unicode programs. "Having always believed that the only way to display, say, Chinese characters correctly was to compile with _UNICODE, this ...