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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 11, 2006 05:35 PMI know a certain other operating system where I have been able to use Swedish characters such as 'åäö' in them for a very long time.
UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. It is the native encoding in Plan 9 and the whole system was converted to use it everywhere in 1992.
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