Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri May 16 05:03:00 UTC 2008


On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:53:35 +0200 Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>þÿOn Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Doesn't wubi install Ubuntu into an existing Windows partition?
>
>Exactly. And then Ubuntu will happily let you create files that you
>can't read in Windows. It's weird.
>
It just ocurred to me that when you email files, odds are the receiver is using Windows.  Perhaps all the mail clients should be patched with similar warnings?  That's probably a lot more common than copying from one partition to another.

Scott K




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