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UTF-8 was first presented to IETF at Usenix in January 1993. NT 1.0 shipped June 1993 and had been in development for several years before that. The famous "Pl
by WorldMaker 5y ago
UTF-8 was first presented to IETF at Usenix in January 1993. NT 1.0 shipped June 1993 and had been in development for several years before that.
The famous "Plan 9 implemented UTF-8 first" thread's most specific date mentioned was September 1992 which only three months more lead time before the standardization notice in January 1993.
Are you suggesting the NT Kernel team should have somehow better paid attention to a not-yet-standard from a research laboratory Operating System? It still probably would have been a couple years too late in the design/architecture process even if they had, given the release data in June 1993.
- my123 5y agoNT was already a functional OS in October 1991: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1_October_1991_build https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1_October_1991_build and http://www.os2museum.com/wp/installing-oct-91-nt-from-cd/ http://www.os2museum.com/wp/installing-oct-91-nt-from-cd/ Those decisions were already way beyond locked back then.
- anthk 5y agoUTF-8 dates back to 1992. http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_utf8_history.html http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_utf8_history.html
- naniwaduni 5y agoWhen speaking with hindsight, it's easy to make the mistake of conflating a point in time where an idea existed/was published (an easy fact to establish upper bounds on through records) with a point in time where that idea was popular and/or taken seriously (much harder to establish and usually localized).