Michael Kaplan - Bringing Windows Vista to International markets | scobleizer

ploe

i like that the fonts of other languages will no longer require a download. it will be nice to see a font instead of the question marks even if i don't understand the language. Big Smile

schrepfler
CMB

If don't remember wrongly whenever I used the macedonian (virtual as there are no hardware ones on sale, thank god : ) keyboard (I hope you won't write FYROM anyomore) there was an issue with a letter (I think it was accented è and/or accented и but I'm not shure).
I can't be sure as I'm writing this on a Italian keyboard but I wasn't able to find accented и or e. I wrote è using the italian e grave.
One nice feature when using a US keyboard is that if I press the tick or backtick I can have è or é in italian, could we have the same thing on a macedonian keyboard?

michkap
Sorting It All Out

Thanks for wandering on over, Robert.

And don't forget that there are probably some others in the group who wouldn't mind an interview (like the other typography team!).

I could probably find something else to blather about (it's like the blog only less typing!).

michkap
Sorting It All Out

Hi schrepfler,

The easiest way to look at a keyboard layout is to open up MSKLC and look at it by using File|Load Existing Layout... functionality.

The name of the manifest is still Macedonian (FYROM), sorry. Sad

Though the keyboard layout name is "FYRO Macedonian". I may blog about that one some day....

I am not sure what you mean by the è and the é though.... they are not available on the US keyboard as keys or dead keys, though they are available on both Italian keyboard layouts we ship....

Oh, and neither of those two characters you mentioned are on the FYRO Macedonian keyboard layout.

schrepfler
CMB

The thing is that macedonian has both и and е as accented letters yet there is no shortcut to write them as there is no keyboard that has these letters so a shortcut would be nice (for instance if I have a us keyboard and my language switching bar I set it to international I can use the backtick and e o a and it'll write me those letters accented. This is something that is broken in the NT/XP lifecycle and I am hoping will be fixed in Vista.
Tell me more about the name issue Smiley

just be carefull not to inflame the forum Smiley

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schrepfler
CMB

If I wasn't clear please mail me individually. Also the US (and more than 100 other countries) officially recognized the Republic of Macedonia with it's constitutional name and not the FYROM acronim so that might be a good reason to change it.

michkap
Sorting It All Out

No, I understood -- and I will forward the info on to our keyboard PM.

As for the name, that is a different story and has nothing to do with the U.N. or the US or the 100 countries. Like I said, maybe I will cover it in the blog some day. Smiley

Catatonic
You're not shy one horse. You brought two too many

It's great to finally see you on Channel 9. Keep on blogging. You're up there with Raymond Chen in terms of stuff that I can actually use.

michkap
Sorting It All Out

Hi ploe!

Having to learn to speak fluent question mark and fluent null glyph is one of those exciting occupational hazards that I must admit is nice to see so much less often in Vista. Smiley