For more on UTF-8's design, see Russ Cox's one-pager on it:
https://research.swtch.com/utf8
And Rob Pike's description of the history of how it was designed:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
Thank you for posting these - the Bell Labs crew is just a different breed.
Of course it's Pike and Thompson and the gang. The amount of contributions these guys made to the world of computing is insane.
Thank you for posting these - the Bell Labs crew is just a different breed.
Of course it's Pike and Thompson and the gang. The amount of contributions these guys made to the world of computing is insane.