Rob Pike wrote up his version of its inception almost 20 years ago. The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003): http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_histo

Rob Pike wrote up his version of its inception almost 20 years ago. The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003): http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735958