Notes and Jottings

Hehe. Now that I’ve gotten your attention, what’s the story with Hotmail’s support for UTF-8?? Try sending a HTML mail in the UTF-8 encoding, accented characters will come out like gobbledegook.

This is 2005, not 1997, UTF-8 is seriously becoming (sorry, has become) the lingua franca of the Internet, and I really did not expect Hotmail not to have full support for it.

So I have a bug in work, “Incorrect handling of accented characters when viewed with Hotmail”, and I’m thinking “what now?”. I have a UTF-8 mail, do I just always transcode to ISO-8859-1 (sorry, Windows-1252)? What does that do to Chinese people, or 日本人? Nothing good, is the answer.

P.S. If this actually gets read by people at Microsoft, I am seriously impressed! Maybe we should call it “sidetalking”. Oh wait, that one was taken already

Is this really the best way to use an alternative ssh key for checking out from CVS?

#include
#include

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char **args;
int i;

args = (char **) malloc((argc + 3) * sizeof(char *));

if (args == NULL)
{
fprintf(stderr, “Out of memory\n”);
exit(1);
}

args[0] = argv[0];
args[1] = “-i”;
args[2] = “/opt/gary/ssh/identity”;

for (i = 1; i