On 04/08/2014 23:46, Norman Wilson wrote:
> PS: it's true that the Plan 9 folks at Bell Labs were early
> champions of both Unicode and the UTF-8 encoding.  Source:
> personal memory.

See the paper " Hello World or Καλημέρα κόσμε or こんにちは 世界" by Rob 
Pike & Ken Thompson

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html