Re: is vim putting the right bytes for utf-8 ?

[Bram Moolenar]

> Before UTF-8 was invented UCS-2 was used.

The first time I heard about UTF-8 was while reading addendum N. of
a draft of ISO 10646-1.  If I remember well, UTF-8 was only later
introduced into Unicode, which was the UCS-2 proponent, while ISO
10646-1 was more on the UCS-4 side.  So, from this perspective, UTF-8
and UCS-2 may be chronologically unrelated.

On the other hand, the experimental AT&T's Plan9 was rune (UCS-2)
oriented, and their UTF-FSS was not far from the actual UTF-8.  I do not
remember Plan9 dates, relative to standards, however.

But all this is fairly fuzzy in my memory, read me with a grain of salt.

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