[Speakers] UTF-8 presentation

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3#M2004-07-27
> I see this is a MYDESK date, but if you like I can do a presentation on
> UTF-8.

Sounds good, I already have a potential taker for the 27th,  I'll try to
ACK/NACK with him today.

> Boilerplate pres.:
> UNIX began in Bell Labs in 1969. It used ANSI's six year-old, 7-bit
> character encoding, with over 150 official extended alphabets, called
> ASCII. In 1992, the X/Open committee tried to bring the 31-bit Unicode
> standard to Unix without requiring 32-bit chars and remaining backwards
> compatible with ASCII. We will show how UTF-8 and ASCII each work,
> compare their limitations, and show how to make programs use the new
> Unicode standard.
> 
> 
> Boilerplate personal:
> 
> Peter Buxton has been using Linux since 1998. He has a special passion
> for the odd facts of history, including computing history, and in making
> things work in ways no normal person would try.
>