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Tech HistoryHistory August 27, 2026 6 min read

UTF-8: The Plan 9 Design That Made Unicode Fit Existing Systems

How Ken Thompson and Rob Pike shaped UTF-8 in 1992, why self-synchronizing bytes mattered, and how later standards narrowed it to today's secure form.

#utf-8#unicode#plan-9

Shell & TerminalFix July 12, 2026 3 min read

Fixing Locale and Encoding Failures in Shell Tools

Mojibake, invalid byte errors, and inconsistent sorting usually come from a locale mismatch - diagnose bytes and locale variables before converting anything.

#fix#locale#encoding