> While the design is nice, it doesn't seem -that- earthshattering that it was done in four days.
And yet it may have needed a genius to desgin and write something so simple. UTF-8 was not the first multi-lingual encoding system; here's an entire list of them, worked on by a lot of probably very smart people:
Edit: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And yet it may have needed a genius to desgin and write something so simple. UTF-8 was not the first multi-lingual encoding system; here's an entire list of them, worked on by a lot of probably very smart people:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Character_encodings
It only seems 'obvious' in hindsight:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
Edit: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery