The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike
The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike Rob Pike explains how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 in one evening and how they together built the first system-wide implementation in less than a week. Subject: UTF-8 history From: "Rob 'Commander' Pike" Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:32:32 -0700 (Thu 06:32 BST) To: mkuhn (at) acm.org, henry (at) spsystems.net Cc: ken (at) entrisphere.com Looking around at some UTF-8 background, I see the same incorrect story being repeated over and over. The incorrect version is: 1. IBM designed UTF-8. 2. Plan 9 implemented it. That's not true. UTF-8 was designed...
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