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0 pointsedflsafoiewq6mo ago0 comments

My takeaway from this story has always been that both MS and Plan 9 simply passively implemented Unicode as received. It was only IBM that had the vision to see that the encoding was wrong and they should make a new one.

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anonymars6mo ago

But doesn't OS/2 still use UCS-2 internally? And only years later (1995+)?

Potential source: https://ia802804.us.archive.org/13/items/os2developmentrelat...

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0 pointsedflsafoiewq6mo ago0 comments

My takeaway from this story has always been that both MS and Plan 9 simply passively implemented Unicode as received. It was only IBM that had the vision to see that the encoding was wrong and they should make a new one.

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anonymars6mo ago

But doesn't OS/2 still use UCS-2 internally? And only years later (1995+)?

Potential source: https://ia802804.us.archive.org/13/items/os2developmentrelat...

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