From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
In-Reply-To: Message from "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
   of "Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:49:50 EDT." <f00da0b3b86d087b71090f077fd9fc1d@plan9.bell-labs.com>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:23:25 -0400
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Rob says:
| conversion, and we handled that one just fine.  All that's missing is
| a concerted effort to push ahead, plus the will to do so.  Neither
| seems to be forthcoming, though.  Oh well.

I suspect it's more the case that people need time to roll
the ideas around in their heads.  You guys wrote a nice paper
that pretty clearly showed how to do utf8 and make it work,
but still it took a while to catch on elsewhere.