How did Go get "rune"?

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cptaffe · 1h ago

The official Go docs say the term rune was introduced for conciseness, but there’s more to it. We dig into the thirty year intertwined history of UTF-8 and “rune,” and hear directly from Rob Pike on the origin.

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How did Go get "rune"?

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