22 Mar
2023
22 Mar
'23
6:02 p.m.
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(a)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(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> http://p9f.org/sys/doc/utf.ps
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 12:41 AM <arnold(a)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(a)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(a)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
>> > >
>> > >
>>
>