The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003) (doc.cat-v.org)
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theologic Sep 16, 2025 | on: UTF-8 history (2003) | context

Great story and brought up on Hacker News on a regular cycle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735958

While I love the Hacker News purity, takes me back to Usenet, it makes me wonder if a little AI could take a repost and auto insert previous postings to allow people to see previous discussions.

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