[geeks] New Laptop question - language support

[Brian Dunbar]

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'?



-- 
Brian Dunbar

"Display some adaptability"