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Thompson and Pike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

"""Thompson's design was outlined on September 2, 1992, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner with Rob Pike. In the following days, Pike and Thompson implemented it and updated Plan 9 to use it throughout,[11] and then communicated their success back to X/Open, which accepted it as the specification for FSS-UTF.[9]"""





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