[geeks] New Laptop question - language support

[Lionel Peterson]

Just looked online, Ultimate may be required - see this Microsoft page:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/languages

As I said, Enterprise & Ultiamte are the same, I'd try the tweaking an
eval install and see how that turns out for you - it will cost you a
bit of money, but you'll know exactly what you'll get.

Lionel

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Try loading up an Eval of Enterprise and try to configure it for what you
want - a VM should accurately recreate the experience with actual hardware.
>
> I can't find evals of lesser versions (Home Premium, etc), and Enterprise is
Ultimate for all practical purposes.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/default
>
> I don't have access to any other version of Win7, but I THINK all but
starter will take language support updates to support additional languages.
>
> I think each user can have a different Language setting - may not be a
system-wide setting.
>
> But what do I know, Mandarin is indistinguishable from ASCII-gook to me ;^)
>
> Lionel
>
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> My host son (mainland Chinese) needs a new laptop.  He ran into a
>> roadblock with Dell, brought me in and now I'm confused, too.
>>
>> He needs it to correctly display Mandarin characters.  It does not
>> need to change over to the Mandarin character set (displaying
>> -everything- in Mandarin) but when someone sends him a file or text in
>> Chinese it needs to show that and not ascii-gook.
>>
>> I'm probably putting this across badly.  I'm guessing .. it needs to
>> do unicode correctly?  Sometime since I stopped doing desktop support
>> a decade ago desktops started being able to do this without fuss.  I
>> may not be able to read Mandarin but it displays just fine in terminal
>> on my laptop.
>>
>> Anyway the helpful agents at Dell said we need to purchase Windows 7
>> Ultimate which seems like a needless expense.
>>
>> Can we get away with 'Windows 7 Home Premium'?

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Lionel Peterson
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