*"Was UTF-8 even around when Microsoft decided on 16-bit widechar?"* No, Thompso...

Someone on Jan 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: UTF-8 Everywhere

"Was UTF-8 even around when Microsoft decided on 16-bit widechar?"

No, Thompson's placemat is from September 1992 and NT 3.1 from July 1993, but development on NT started in November 1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development)