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For more on UTF-8's design, see Russ Cox's one-pager on it: https://research.swtch.com/utf8 https://research.swtch.com/utf8 And Rob Pike's description of the
by nostrademons 1y ago
For more on UTF-8's design, see Russ Cox's one-pager on it:
https://research.swtch.com/utf8 https://research.swtch.com/utf8
And Rob Pike's description of the history of how it was designed:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
- jjice 1y agoThank you for posting these - the Bell Labs crew is just a different breed. Of course it's Pike and Thompson and the gang. The amount of contributions these guys made to the world of computing is insane.
- extraduder_ire 1y agoI consider "designed on a placemat" to be a selling point for any high-quality standard that will last.