Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
8 Nov 1998 05:18:28 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9811072048390.27780-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
By author: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> This is all nice, however ISO and IETF are dominated by Microsofties.
> Ex: UTF-8-ization of everything (sorry, I talked about that before, and a
> lot of people claimed that it's good and open solution -- it isn't, it's
> the result of pressure of commercial implementors, and it was nowhere in
> sight until Microsoft started using it).
>

Not true. Micro$oft have been pushing UCS-2; UTF-8 came out of X/Open
and Plan 9.

-hpa

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