There is a comment from "adolph" parallel to yours with footnotes. But I remember the event well (though it was 30 years ago) as the difficulty for programmers was given as the justification for the law (this was a change in collation).
This particularly irked me as unicode was a few years old at this point, and while not really adopted yet, was clearly the future.
This particularly irked me as unicode was a few years old at this point, and while not really adopted yet, was clearly the future.