http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-yergeau-rfc2279bis-05.txt
Francois, The currently ongoing revision of the UTF-8 RFC may be a good opportunity to unrewrite the history of this encoding and to finally acknowledge that what we know today as UTF-8 was actually designed by Ken Thompson in the presence of Rob Pike during the evening hours of 1992-09-02 in a New Jersey diner. It was then taken on board the standards bandwagon by the X/Open joint i18n group, who had drafted an earlier FSS-UTF shortly before (the one you quote), which however had less useful synchronization properties and was therefore quickly forgotten about. See my short UTF-8 history on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#history for details and witness testimony. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
