[Speakers] UTF-8 presentation

[Peter Buxton]

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.

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.


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