From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Bell Foreign-Language UNIX Efforts
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:47:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230319134701.3A262220F7@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d90865c0-7c1c-c726-83c2-a7114e31bf19@aueb.gr>
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.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-19 5:00 segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-19 13:32 ` [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2023-03-19 13:47 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2023-03-19 20:27 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-20 7:55 ` arnold
2023-03-20 9:22 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-20 11:02 ` arnold
2023-03-20 15:44 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-20 22:01 ` John Cowan
2023-03-20 22:28 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-22 2:25 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-22 2:52 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-22 7:12 ` Mehdi Sadeghi via TUHS
2023-03-22 7:33 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-22 7:40 ` arnold
2023-03-22 10:02 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2023-03-22 10:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2023-03-22 12:02 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-22 22:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-22 23:33 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-23 0:01 ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2023-03-19 13:38 ` Edouard Klein
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