FWIW, UTF-8 was designed by Ken Thompson: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt So his inve

FWIW, UTF-8 was designed by Ken Thompson: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt So his inventions of Unix and UTF-8 now dominate both the back- and front-ends of the internet.