Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
I became aware of this while watching Professor Brailsford&#x27;s interview with him (Computerphile channel): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ</a><p>(Around 7-8 minute mark)<p>Update:<p>At 24-25 minute mark, he talks about the technologies he is inquiring to write his new book with (he mentions troff and groff).<p>He says he wanted to try &quot;XeTeX&quot; (which supports Unicode) but &quot;...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I&#x27;m living would...mmm..not be finished yet!&quot;<p>So there we go...We had the opportunity to read the mind of the developer of awk and unix and co-author of the literal &quot;C Programming Language&quot;, confronting with the absolute state of the tooling of the modern world.