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Michael Kaplan's blog was indeed great; Microsoft took it down, then he started blogging elsewhere, then he unfortunately died in 2015, taking his second blog w

• iforgotpassword 7y ago
  Oh. I remember reading his blog occasionally back in the day. I faintly remember there was a disagreement with Microsoft about his blog or at least some post in it, so he moved to an external blog. Great to see someone archived that stuff.
• cesarb 7y ago
  Yes, that was it, thanks! It's at http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/07/14/665714.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/07/14/66571... (Can the CP_ACP be UTF-8?) which links to http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/02/06/368081.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/02/06/36808... (Can a codepage be changed? How about which codepage a locale points to?) and http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/07/04/656051.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/07/04/65605... (Behind Norman's 'Who needs Unicode?' post). "It is not possible given both the current architecture (which must work in both user and kernel mode) and also the inherent assumption in several subsystems (like USER) that the ACPs maximum number of bytes per character is 2." And the #define would have been MB_LEN_MAX.