UTF-8, Explained Simply

Nic Barker explains the history of text encoding, the creation of the Unicode standard, and how UTF-8 works.

This video provides an introduction to text encoding on computers, and outlines the history that led to the creation of the Unicode standard, and eventually, the famous UTF-8 text encoding. "The History of UTF-8, as told by Rob Pike" doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history The puzzle game I made based on Hangul: store.steampowered.com/app/2090580/Matcha/ apps.apple.com/us/app/matcha/id1597044323 The original "Unicode 88" spec:unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf If you're interested, I also produce a paid programming fundamentals course at thesimplejoyofprogramming.com