The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003)joelonsoftware.com 5 pointsMouq13 years ago2 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−peapicker13yJoel is pretty good, but UTF-8 wasn't designed by California hippies. It was designed in New Jersey by a Louisianan (Ken Thompson) and a Canadian (Rob Pike).−IvyMike13yI think what he's saying is we had unicode in the form of UCS-2 but Silicon Valley programmers refused to use it because it was wasteful.When Thompson and Pike finally invented UTF-8 was when things started getting moving.
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Joel is pretty good, but UTF-8 wasn't designed by California hippies. It was designed in New Jersey by a Louisianan (Ken Thompson) and a Canadian (Rob Pike).
I think what he's saying is we had unicode in the form of UCS-2 but Silicon Valley programmers refused to use it because it was wasteful.
When Thompson and Pike finally invented UTF-8 was when things started getting moving.