[svlug] Why do you guys Linux so much ?

[John Conover]

Kristian Erik Hermansen writes:
> On 10/19/07, Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at richardsharpe.com> wrote:
> > with running out of memory. However, it has a slick integration of Asian
> > Languages, and since I am studying Chinese, it is very easy to write
> > documents in Chinese. I am told that Mac OS X has the same. Linux does
> > not. Many of the apps on Linux are no where near as slick as they are on
> 
> Ubuntu has excellent foreign language support!

Yes they do, for Katakana, (which is kind'a T9 for Chinese/Japanese,)
but he said he was studying Chinese, which means he needs the full
language support, (which consists of a few tens of K's of
characters-16 bits worth-meaning a lot of keyboard/display/WP/printer
driver problems.)

You are correct, Ubuntu does Katakana well, but MS, recognizing the
size of the market involved, did most of the Asian language
development for Windows in Japan/China, so it is much better
implementation, (but its still not as good as Ubuntu's Indo/European
language implementation.)

        John

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