Sorry 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,

Sorry 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