Surrogates and noncharacters

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:
 |> On 12 May 2015, at 16:50, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
 |>> Indeed, that is why UTF-8 was invented for use in Unix-like environments.
 |>> 
 |> Not the main reason: communication protocols, and data storage \
 |> is also based on 8-bit code units (even if storage group \
 |> them by much larger blocks).
 |
 |There is some history here:
 |  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History

"What happened was this":

  http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

--steffen