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> The article almost makes it sound like UTF-8 was a Plan9 invention. It more or less was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History https://en.wikipedia.org
by jflatow 10y ago
> The article almost makes it sound like UTF-8 was a Plan9 invention.
It more or less was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History
- bhaak 10y agoPlan9 and UTF-8 were invented by the same people. But Plan9 didn't influence the design of UTF-8 only in as far as having a better character encoding than the original 2 byte UCS encoding. And then Plan9 was used to showcase UTF-8.