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

Posted by Mouq on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:54PM
from the joelonsoftware.com dept.

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unic... by peapicker on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:55PM (#6136029)

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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Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unic... by IvyMike on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:51PM (#6136750)

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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