Some background information on the Big Vision

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

For those of you new to UTF-8, it might be very helpful to read the
classic 1992 Thomson/Pike USENIX paper on how AT&T's Plan9 operating
system migrated to UTF-8 completely. (UTF-8 was still called UTF-FSS at
the time before it became an ISO standard, so don't get confused by the
terminology.)

The paper is on

ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/charsets/UTF-8-Plan9-paper.ps.gz

Their terminology is slightly different, for instance they used a
datatype "Rune" for what we call today "wchar_t", but the basic ideas
are fully applicable.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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