And thanks to Java popularizing UTF-8. Java was the major language to support Unicode natively. The lack of Unicode support in C++ was disappointing.
(Yes, UTF-8 hack is nothing compared to Huffman coding. The Deflate compression algorithm using Huffman coding to encode the LZ77 output and the Huffman encoding table itself is another notch up on the hacking coolness scale.)
(Yes, UTF-8 hack is nothing compared to Huffman coding. The Deflate compression algorithm using Huffman coding to encode the LZ77 output and the Huffman encoding table itself is another notch up on the hacking coolness scale.)