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SethMLarson
on Feb 8, 2022
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How UTF-8 Works
I knew that Ken Thompson had an influence but wasn't aware of Rob Pike, what a great fact! Thanks for sharing this :)
ChrisSD
on Feb 8, 2022
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For whatever it's worth Rob Pike seems to credit Ken Thompson for the invention, though they both worked together to make it the encoding used by Plan 9 and to advocate for its use more widely.
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