Ubuntu on Windows

Will rendering Unicode characters still be a complete disaster? Will I need to care about which "code page" or whatever is being used (not that that ever seemed to help)?

I think making unicode work properly is a prerequisite to run native linux applications, so I'm hopeful.

Personally I think they should change the terminal to unicode by default and make the 1% of pos-ported-from-windows-95 apps `chcp` before they work.

I agree, but as someone who has to "maintain" one of those pos-ported-from-windows-95 apps, the actual source code is long gone so it's nearly impossible to make any meaningful changes to the application. I'd venture a guess that most of these things that would break are in a similar boat.

That said, F-it. If updating to Server 2016 breaks it for good, we might actually prioritize a rewrite within the next two decades.