> UTF-8 was invented by people who were sufficiently fed up with the shortcomings of Unix that Uh, not exactly, not quite. UTF-8 was invented by Unix people w

> UTF-8 was invented by people who were sufficiently fed up with the shortcomings of Unix that Uh, not exactly, not quite. UTF-8 was invented by Unix people who were fed up with all the alternative proposals at the time. Those people did not then go and "fix Unix" in any way regarding this. Those people were none others than Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, who were among the creators of Unix -- you could only have gotten closer to "those people" being the creators of Unix by having had Denis Ritchie at that diner table on that fateful day.