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by jbarham
5749 days ago
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No, UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson. Source, by Rob Pike: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt Key quote: "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 [by Ken Thompson], in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992." |
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