[TUHS] Bell Foreign-Language UNIX Efforts
Ralph Corderoy
ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Sun Mar 19 23:47:01 AEST 2023
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
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Cheers, Ralph.
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