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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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