[geeks] New Laptop question - language support

[Lionel Peterson]

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'?
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Dunbar
>
> "Display some adaptability"
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