speakup and vim problem with key echo

Chris Brannon cmbrannon79 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 15:15:24 EDT 2010


Michael wrote:
> 	Really?  Kewl.  Thought it was all just some Microsoft "Let's 
> pretty everything up so folks won't notice that 10-second to recalculate 
> spreadsheet back in MS-DOS, still takes 10 seconds in Win7" ideas.

The "creators" of UTF-8 were Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, both formerly
employed by Bell Labs
They work for Google now.
If you don't recognize the names, Ken Thompson was one of the creators of
Unix.
Yes, UTF-8 is a good thing for a few reasons, and it is a superset of ASCII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF_8

-- Chris



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