On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> [1]: this is the most amazing encoding "hack" I have seen, and I think
> that's actually why Unicode for codepoints <256 is the way it is: that
> latin1 strings are just that: valid unicode. I know it was not done
> _because_ of Squeak, but Andreas obviously saw then chance and took it.
>
>
The story was a bit more complicated, but we documented some ideas here:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/ohshima_c5.pdf


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-- Yoshiki
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