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		SethMLarson on Feb 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 [–]

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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