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jbarham
on Feb 6, 2012
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Unicode over 60 percent of the web
FWIW, UTF-8 was designed by Ken Thompson:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
So his inventions of Unix and UTF-8 now dominate both the back- and front-ends of the internet.
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So his inventions of Unix and UTF-8 now dominate both the back- and front-ends of the internet.