Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

['Forum Post]

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