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> - UTF8 came from Plan 9 Not really, Ken Thompson certainly contributed to it, but they didn't invent it.
by joey_bananas 16y ago
> - UTF8 came from Plan 9
Not really, Ken Thompson certainly contributed to it, but they didn't invent it.
- jbarham 16y agoNo, UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson. Source, by Rob Pike: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt Key quote: "Looking around at some UTF-8 background, I see the same incorrect story being repeated over and over. The incorrect version is: 1. IBM designed UTF-8. 2. Plan 9 implemented it. That's not true. UTF-8 was designed [by Ken Thompson], in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992."