Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Antoine Leca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Henry Spencer wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen wrote:
> >
> >>Actually it is funny that you call it Unicode. UTF-8 clearly comes from
> >>the 10646 side of UCS, Unicode did not invent it at all...
> >
> > It did not come from 10646 either; it came from the *Unix* side of the
> > house, specifically from X/Open.
>
> I thought it came from Plan 9 (Rune) then passed to X-Open (FSS-UTF?).
> Did I miss something? Note I was not there at this time.
>
No, it came from X/Open under the name FSS-UTF, and was later adopted
by Plan 9. Plan 9 had been using the short-lived UTF-1 before then,
but immediately recognized FSS-UTF as technically superior. "Rune" is
just Plan 9-ese for a wide character.
-hpa
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