Hans Aberg <[email protected]> wrote: |> On 12 May 2015, at 16:50, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: |>> Indeed, that is why UTF-8 was invented for use in Unix-like environments. |>> |> Not the main reason: communication protocols, and data storage \ |> is also based on 8-bit code units (even if storage group \ |> them by much larger blocks). | |There is some history here: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History
"What happened was this": http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history --steffen
