This is like TIME CUBE (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube) but for encoding nerds.
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It’s a fairly simple encoding which is UTF-8 compatible and allows codepoints to be arbitrarily large. It’s a real encoding proposal with a simple rigorous specification. I don’t have a use case for needing arbitrarily large codepoints, but for people who do, this makes more sense than hacks such as having surrogates in Unicode’s hi-bit private use area.
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edit: replaced false prophet site with wiki link for the original one and true timecube.com...lost to the sands of ...time.
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It’s a fairly simple encoding which is UTF-8 compatible and allows codepoints to be arbitrarily large. It’s a real encoding proposal with a simple rigorous specification. I don’t have a use case for needing arbitrarily large codepoints, but for people who do, this makes more sense than hacks such as having surrogates in Unicode’s hi-bit private use area.