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Ken Thompson made contributions to which text formatting system?

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UTF-8, the answer to Ken Thompson's contributions, is a character encoding standard that represents text in a digital format. Unlike ASCII, which is limited to 7-bit characters, UTF-8 uses a variable-length encoding scheme, allowing it to represent a much wider range of characters, including those used in various languages and symbols.
The Revolutionary Genius: Ken Thompson and the Unix Legacy

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