Sorting it all Out

:) Thanks for pointing to the KB and thanks also for the KB itself !

As for "And please note that it has nothing to do with bug, whatsoever, since it only impacts keyboard input in these applications!" technically you are right, but hopefully I will never be in a situation of creating a piece of whatever text without a keyboard :)

Cristi

«Western countries don't use subtitling». Well, this is certainly surprising for me, living in the westernmost country of mainland Europe where *everything* spoken or written in a foreign language (some 60% of all TV and 90% of all movies) *is subtitled* (except for some voice-off comments in documentaries and some animated movies for children, which arte dubbed).

The support article is now public http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936060, but the physical solution is not (yet?) available for direct download. Hmm ... perhaps it is still under testing ?

And in response to António Martins-Tuválkin: well, I agree that my original statement about "Western countries don't use subtitling" is over-simplified.

Big countries, like Germany, France or Italy don't use subtitling in general, but there are also exceptions: in France for example, public programms uses voice doubling, while paid programms uses subtitling (VOST - version originale sous-titrée). Belgium and Holland uses subtitling. European Union directives forces the presence of special subtiling designed for audio impaired peoples. AFAIK scandinavian countries also uses subtitling.

Ok with that. But what I wanted to say is that – from my point of view – the real problem is that all these countries are, let's say, satisfied with the actual status quo: they either need no subtitling, or they are satisfied with the actual EBU subtitling format, which is based on the ancient telematic ISO/IEC 6937 standard that covers a limited number of languages. And I can't blaim them: if it ain't broke, why fix it ?

The ad-hoc working group that develops (or just tests?) the Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) is advancing painfully slow, so it appears that the new XML-based EBU subtitling data exchange format is far away. Or so it appears to me. But this is a topic for other discussion ...

Cristi

I installed the 32-bit hotfix version – it does its job well, no problem so far. The only weird thing is that the page here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936060 lacks the install procedure description, but luckily I found a similar install procedure description on another KB.

Cristi

It was over two years ago that I first pointed out the problems with Windows code page 20269 (Microsoft's

You might remember blogs like Double Secret ANSI, part 2 (the brokenest one yet, sorry 'bout that!) and

The other day, Raymond Chen blogged about How do the common controls convert between ANSI and Unicode?

Glenn asks: Regarding MKLC Codepages: Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator - In the Properties, I set the