Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz ("DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)") wrote:
UTF-8 wasn't designed by IBM, contrary to some rumors; it was designed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike.
(And this is also what I personally heard in real time from the Unicode Committee when UTF-8 was first designed)
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt