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UTF-8 was plan9's invention, I don't think anybody saw it coming.
by Cloudef 4y ago
UTF-8 was plan9's invention, I don't think anybody saw it coming.
- gpderetta 4y agoFor more details: Rob Pike & Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 when prompted by X/Open (Not sure if X/Open and POSIX were already merged at that point) and they first implemented the proof of concept on plan9 (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt).
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