Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

[John Gardner]

Strange, I remember reading that the extra storage space required for
regular 7-bit characters is what crippled the adoption of Unicode. Prior to
UTF-8, I mean...

I wonder if the serviette (napkin) which Ken Thompson plotted UTF-8 on has
a home in the MIT museum somewhere... =)

On 23 July 2017 at 22:39, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> > What's the rationale for choosing UTF-16 in the first place?
>
> History.  Microsoft plumped for UCS-2, both UCS-2BE and UCS-2LE I think.
> That's a fixed width;  two bytes per rune.  When that became
> insufficient, UTF-16 was a backwards-compatible upgrade AIUI.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
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