Re: UTF-8 turns 20

So, « You Took First » (UTF) on it ?

2012/9/6 Mark Davis ☕ <mark_at_macchiato.com>:
> Rob Pike
>
> Yesterday 6:12 PM - Public
> UTF-8 turned 20 years old yesterday.
>
> It's been well documented elsewhere
> (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt) that one Wednesday
> night, after a phone call from X/Open, Ken Thompson and I were sitting in a
> New Jersey diner talking about how best to represent Unicode as a byte
> stream. Given the experience we had accumulated dealing with the original
> UTF, which had many problems, we knew...
>
> Full post at
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/Rz1udTvtiMg
>
> Mark
>
> — Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —
>
Received on Thu Sep 06 2012 - 15:31:51 CDT