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" <r (at) google.com>
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 ...
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