[TUHS] Bell Foreign-Language UNIX Efforts

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Diomidis,

> The Bell Labs team took the bold approach of adopting the draft
> Unicode standard and an X-Open proposal for encoding multibyte
> characters only using bytes with the top bit set.  At the time the
> encoding was known as UTF-2; it is what we now call UTF-8.

Rob and Ken altered Dave Prosser's FSS-UTF rather than just adopting an
existing proposal, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History

More history, including Bell Labs emails from ’92:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.