Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Panther at work

So I got around to installing Panther on a PowerBook G4 for work. I was given a Sony SR series laptop which has all my document data, and I thought I would copy them over to the new machine (yes, all 1.6GB of it). Turns out, Panther can read NTFS partitions, but there is a glitch in filenames that are unicode-encoded. Panther was unable to copy files from an NTFS partition that had Japanese characters in them; even after zipping a file, the unzipped file was garbled. Transfering over a network is a possibility, but not for all 1.6GB. So I ended up formatting the external drive I was using to transfer data to FAT32, and file copying worked like a charm. Small time bug, but I figured you multi-language OS switchers out there could save time knowing this in advance.