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U+263A entered Unicode in 1993, afaik. Plan9 had utf8 support in the terminal back then!
by gylterud 1y ago
U+263A entered Unicode in 1993, afaik. Plan9 had utf8 support in the terminal back then!
- Findecanor 1y agoSingle code point, monochrome and single space. So it didn't need to be handled differently than any other non-ASCII character. BTW, it is emitted with the sequence `Compose` `:` `)` (if you have Compose-key support installed+enabled)
- layer8 1y agoThis character was code 0x01 in the original IBM PC code page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437), and hence in DOS. It was displayed single-width and monochrome just like any other 8-bit character, never causing any rendering issues, unlike emojis today. It was added to Unicode for round-trip compatibility with that code page. More background about how the smiley ended up in the IBM code page: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/790/the-ibm-smiley-character-turns-30 https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/790/the-...
- MisterTea 1y agoUTF-8 was developed by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson on a napkin in a diner and implemented in Pikes Plan 9 making it the first UTF-8 OS.