Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Dec 9 08:42:03 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 03:12 -0500, 'Forum Post wrote:
> I doubt that I'll give up Windows in the foresseable future. Ubuntu and
> other Linuxes still are bad for certain areas. My concern is
> translation work — I've said something there:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=99727. Besides, Linux
> generally is just very bad about different alphabets/scripts and
> encodings. Windows of the NT family are Unicode-based — that
> means, that I can have files with names in Belarusan, Chinese, German,
> Japanese, Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian on my disk — that's what
> I really have. With Linux, it's highly problematic: even filenames in
> one language (say, Russian) may be unreadable on different machines
> because of differents encodings (Russian Linuxes, in particular, can
> use KOI-8, ISO Cyrillic or Windows CP-1251).
> 
> 
> 
> As far as I understand, however, Ubuntu uses UTF-8 — I hope, this
> will work.
> 
> 
> -- 
> esperantisto
> 

I think you are a windows sweetie  trying to make probles..


Kisses to YOU!!

Hehe



Vram







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