The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003)

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	The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003) (joelonsoftware.com)
	5 points by Mouq 4703 days ago

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peapicker 4703 days ago

Joel is pretty good, but UTF-8 wasn't designed by California hippies. It was designed in New Jersey by a Louisianan (Ken Thompson) and a Canadian (Rob Pike).

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IvyMike 4703 days ago

I think what he's saying is we had unicode in the form of UCS-2 but Silicon Valley programmers refused to use it because it was wasteful.

When Thompson and Pike finally invented UTF-8 was when things started getting moving.

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