[jflatow]

> The article almost makes it sound like UTF-8 was a Plan9 invention.

It more or less was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History

[bhaak]

Plan9 and UTF-8 were invented by the same people.

But Plan9 didn't influence the design of UTF-8 only in as far as having a better character encoding than the original 2 byte UCS encoding.

And then Plan9 was used to showcase UTF-8.