[Buddha-l] Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?

[Christopher Fynn]

bruce quarles wrote:
> 
> 
> But with this Ubuntu, can we use all our Tibetan programs and dictionaries?
> What about all the tibetan fonts, will they all work, or is there set 
> fonts for that system, say like unicode or what have you. I ask because 
> Tibetan and Tibetan text  are the ONLY reason I use a computer.

There is no problem using Tibetan on Linux. Unicode is standard - any program 
that still uses anything else for Tibetan script is, imo, brain-dead.
That said, many individual non-Unicode Windows programs (like dictionaries)
can run on Linux under Wine.

- Chris