Sweet!
Caffeine is good
for you. The BBC says so, therefore it must be true. All these years
I've been protecting my brain against Alzheimer's and dementia. What do all
you lousy water and juice drinkers have to show for your beverage choices?
Oh sure, you may be well-hydrated, but I'll take dehydration over dementia
any day, suckers!
Rant: locales
I recently bought some French music. The filenames have non-ASCII characters
in them. Guess what I see when I ls the files in a terminal? If
you guessed the actual, correct filenames, you're wrong! I see random shit,
of course!
Why is it that in 2008, with a modern Linux distribution (aka gutsy), this
problem is still not solved out of the box? What's more, the
localeconf tool that you used to use to choose your locale has been
removed from gutsy for some stupid reason. I couldn't find it in
apt-get and had to download the deb manually.
Anyway, I have set my LANG to en_CA.UTF-8. I have tried
both gnome-terminal and xterm. I am using a modern font
that I know has the correct characters in both. And still, random shit
printed instead of correct characters. What do people do who actually have
to deal with filenames containing non-ASCII characters on a daily basis,
you know, for things more important than their music collections?
