The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003)

The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003)(joelonsoftware.com)

5 points by Mouq 12 years ago | 2 comments

peapicker 12 years ago |

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).

IvyMike 12 years ago | |

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.