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[Nadaka]

I had vista on my new computer for a few months, it was ok, but then it was a brand new quad core so I would not notice as much slowness as a lot of other computers would. But I switched to win 7 last weekend and I must say, much, much better than vista.

However, I installed ubuntu the same day. Its also pretty sweet, firefox in ubuntu is a lot more responsive than in any version of windows (xp, vista or 7). Both have about the same startup time (under a minute, including a 1 second delay to pass through express gate and a couple seconds to select from GRUB. Still exploring both, but I am liking them.

[Chrispy]

On the somewhat-unbiased-somewhat-unnecessary front, I, a Mac user, have not tried nor am willing to pass judgment on 7.  A few friends of mine have complained that they liked the OS better when it was in beta.  OP's problems sound incredibly annoying.

I'm honestly surprised he's having the problem at all; like I said, Notepad should detect encoding upon opening a file and allow you to select which encoding to use when you save it, so I have to wonder if it wasn't mostly user error at fault here.

My issue was that when I created a new file (not opening an existing file), the default encoding it saved to wasn't compatible with dwarf fortress.  So every time I want to add a new file to the raw's directory, I need to duplicate an old file, rename it, and go about from there, rather than just open up notepad and save a new file (It's unlikely I'll remember which encoding scheme to use).  I figured I'd make mention of it, encase anyone had a similar problem in the future.

[Nadaka]

Or, you could pick a different encoding when you go to save the file. notepad in windows 7 has options for ANSI, unicode, unicode big endian and UTF-8 on its save dialog..

[G-Flex]

He's probably creating the new file using an Explorer context menu (creating it with default encoding of some kind), opening it, editing it, and just clicking "save" instead of using the dialog box to change the encoding.

I'm sure all the files DF uses are in the same encoding scheme, or should be. Probably ANSI.

[CobaltKobold]

I had good experiences with WinEdt. But that was back in the days when I used...
*krackaBOOM*
WINDOWS ME

Is it appropriate that I pictured you in a high tower, on the outskirts of civilization, pressing the laws of decency and trying to create your own demonic abominations?

*fangirl squeee!* ...what are "laws of decency"?

Is "Windows ME" a killing-word?  Does it make fire rain from the skies, and seas boil?  Are those who are struck blind upon gazing at it the lucky ones?

anyway, ME was created by basically increasing 98's requirements, removing nice things(DOSmode), and a new host of bugs. so, it was, as near as I can tell, the version of windows LEAST compatible with anything.

[G-Flex]

It was also unreliable as hell.


But was that better or worse than Microsoft Bob? Hrrrm.

[LegoLord]

It was also unreliable as hell.


But was that better or worse than Microsoft Bob? Hrrrm.

I think you're thinking of Microsoft YOU.  Bob wasn't really much changed from its predecessor, Microsoft Steve, and that was basically Microsoft Joe with less RAM requirements.  Doesn't really compete even with Richard in terms of how bad it is.
I'd have to say ME is worse than YOU, personally.  It's not YOU, it's ME, see?

Okay, enough of that from me.  I haven't used ME before, at least not within my memory.  How old is it?

[CobaltKobold]

9Y: ME stands for Mega Excruciatingokay not that bad. Millennium Edition.

[G-Flex]

Windows ME is from 2000.

It introduced some new features from Windows 2000, but suffered from an awful combination of still running on top of DOS, not really allowing you to USE real-mode DOS, and generally being a piece of junk that only lasted a year or so.


Microsoft Bob was a product from 1995 that basically just acted as a Windows shell/interface replacement for Windows 3.1/95.

It was a horrible, horrible failure.
http://www.d2ca.org/ms-bob-sign-in.html
Silly article about it there.

Best part: If you continued entering the wrong password for your account, it just asked you for a new one. Think about that!