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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by ics on Friday August 09, 2013 @11:59PM (#6190007)
My eye went straight to it as well but more because I had passively (embarrassingly) assumed that Plan9 didn't have non-western fonts by default. 'twas a silly thought.

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/utf

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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by webreac on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:25AM (#6190849)
At least Plan9 did something wrong. UTF8 is so superior to this silly 16bits encoding.
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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by errnoh on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:45AM (#6190900)
Yes, and that's why they (Rob Pike & ken) created UTF-8 and converted Plan9 to use it.

see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

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