Addendum: This was posted to the front page today: https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history It also notes th

Addendum: This was posted to the front page today: https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history It also notes that UTF-8 protects against the dangers of NUL and '/' appearing in filenames, which would kill C strings and DOS path handling, respectively.