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		webreac on Aug 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi At least Plan9 did something wrong. UTF8 is so superior to this silly 16bits encoding.

errnoh on Aug 10, 2013 [–]

Yes, and that's why they (Rob Pike & ken) created UTF-8 and converted Plan9 to use it.

see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

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