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Had the same thought, reading the strings package. Why’d they mention letters? Were Ken Thompson and Rob Pike even aware of the concept of Unicode code points?
by riwsky 4y ago
Had the same thought, reading the strings package. Why’d they mention letters? Were Ken Thompson and Rob Pike even aware of the concept of Unicode code points?
- hu3 4y agoSorry if I missed the possible sarcasm but Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 while working with Rob Pike. "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." - Rob Pike source: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history