From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:02:33 +1100
To: Skip Tavakkolian <fariborz.t@gmail.com>
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CC: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Bell Foreign-Language UNIX Efforts
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The appendix version named it plain UTF, repurposing the extant name to the
new encoding. The -8 came later, as it is in these linked documents,
because some people wanted a UTF-7 and a UTF-16. Those people should be
punished.

-rob



On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:09 PM Skip Tavakkolian <fariborz.t@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Also here:
> https://github.com/0intro/plan9/tree/main/sys/doc
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 3:02 AM Skip Tavakkolian <fariborz.t@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> http://p9f.org/sys/doc/utf.ps
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 12:41 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. Is there a link to postscript or pdf of the paper?  I undoubtedly
>>> read it decades ago, but I doubt that I have it handy.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Arnold
>>>
>>> Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Pretty much, as it was the Plan 9 UTF man page at the time. This link
>>> will
>>> > be essentially the same.
>>> >
>>> > http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/6/utf
>>> >
>>> > -rob
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 6:12 PM Mehdi Sadeghi <mehdi@mehdix.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > It's a long shot but is that appendix around by any chance?
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Mehdi
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On 3/22/23 03:52, Rob Pike wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > the paper had an appendix that described UTF-8's encoding
>>> rigorously, but
>>> > > that was dropped
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>>
>>