Unicode, UTF-8, Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson, boss:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#Unicode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Unicode_Transformation_Format_and_Universal_Character_Set

Also, the Internet has confirmed I am not the only one who thinks Dennis Ritchie looks like Adam Savage. ; o )

Note: Unicode originated a bit differently and does not mean the same thing as UTF-8.