Hoary Pre-Update Checklist

[Olafur Arason]

This is only for international users, like me. If you had documents that had
ISO-8859-1 encoding of text files and file name it will change it to 
Unicode. There should be (Invalid Unicode) error in Nautilus if you haven't
changed them.

Olafur Arason

On Apr 8, 2005 11:42 AM, Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:
> I don't think I quite get what you're saying with the whole Unicode
> conversion thingy.  What would I need this for?  I use an English input
> keyboard (standard QWERTY layout).  Do I need this for any reason?
> 
> ~Matt
> 
> 
> On Apr 7, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 
> > pe, 2005-04-08 kello 00:00 +0000, Olafur Arason kirjoitti:
> >> A) The great thing about debian package system is that it work well.
> >>      Ubuntu also has nice upgrade features like tool that migrates
> >>      documents to unicode.
> >
> >
> > Maybe I remember wrong but I think that one of the developers said that
> > UTF-8 migration tool wouldn't make it to Hoary. I'm glad if I'm wrong,
> > because just yesterday I had problems with this matter. I was helping a
> > person to install Ubuntu and noticed that many file names of his
> > back-upped files had changed unreadable after moving them to Hoary (the
> > file names contained some Scandinavian special characters).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ari
> >
> >
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