International Characters in Windows Filenames

Posted in Computers & Technology, Microsoft, Spread IE by Elliott Back on October 16th, 2005.

Yet another reason that Windows XP rocks:

Windows XP = Internationalization

I know it’s probably not a big deal to you if your operating system supports, out of the box, Chinese text input, and within five minutes of installation, will let me rename my hard drive ??. I just think it’s really cool.

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wtf 3 years ago 1 point
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Holy shit! Windows XP does UTF-8 just like any other OS known to man! How amazing!!! Windows XP's innovation never seizes to amaze me.

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Elliott Back 3 years ago 1 point
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It's still pretty, don't you think?

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marty 3 years ago 1 point
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The author thinks it's really cool to name his hard drives with Chinese characters - just like it WAS cool to have them tattooed on your skin a decade or more ago. Oh well better late then never I guess... (roll eyes)

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Elliott Back 3 years ago 1 point
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Ed 3 years ago 1 point
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The problem is how bad the implementation of Unicode in Windows.

It will happen one day you have a file name with Simpified chinese and Tradtional chinese character, as well we Japaness type chinese with Japanese words and Korean symbols........ Windows then messed it up. So bad that you can no longer get back the file.

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inaequitas 3 years ago 1 point
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Wow yes, the prettiness can certainly make all the "crash and boot" routine much more pleasant because... heck, it's pretty?

Umm so this is such a big thing because... Windows 2000 couldn't do it? Cause we on this side of the front had it for a while now...

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John B 2 years ago 1 point
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Oddly, my dictionary (Wenlin 3.0, using John DeFrancis' ABC Chinese-English Dictionary) has "remain poor and clean at retirement (of officials)" as an idiomatic meaning of ?? along with the more familiar meaning of "cool breeze." I wonder what that means?

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