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            1 .tr -\(hy
            2 .TL
            3 Hello World
            4 .br
            5 or
            6 .br
            7 Καλημέρα κόσμε
            8 .br
            9 or
           10 .br
           11 こんにちは 世界
           12 .AU
           13 Rob Pike
           14 Ken Thompson
           15 .AI
           16 .MH
           17 .AB
           18 Plan 9 from Bell Labs has recently been converted from ASCII
           19 to an ASCII-compatible variant of Unicode, a 16-bit character set.
           20 In this paper we explain the reasons for the change,
           21 describe the character set and representation we chose,
           22 and present the programming models and software changes
           23 that support the new text format.
           24 Although we stopped short of full internationalization\(emfor
           25 example, system error messages are in Unixese, not Japanese\(emwe
           26 believe Plan 9 is the first system to treat the representation
           27 of all major languages on a uniform, equal footing throughout all its
           28 software.
           29 .AE
           30 .SH
           31 Introduction
           32 .PP
           33 The world is multilingual but most computer systems
           34 are based on English and ASCII or worse.
           35 The pending release of Plan 9 [Pike90], a new distributed operating
           36 system from Bell Laboratories, seemed a good occasion
           37 to correct this chauvinism.
           38 It is easier to make such deep changes when building new systems than
           39 by retrofitting old ones.
           40 .PP
           41 The ANSI C standard [ANSIC] contains some guidance on the matter of
           42 `wide' and `multi-byte' characters but falls far short of
           43 solving the myriad associated problems.
           44 We could find no literature on how to convert a
           45 .I system
           46 to larger character sets, although some individual
           47 .I programs
           48 have been converted.
           49 This paper reports what we discovered as we
           50 explored the problem of representing multilingual