The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003) (joelonsoftware.com) 5 points by Mouq 13y ago ↗ HN
[–] peapicker 13y 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). [–] IvyMike 13y 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.
[–] IvyMike 13y 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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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 18.1 ms ] threadWhen Thompson and Pike finally invented UTF-8 was when things started getting moving.