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1. Sharlin · 1789889620 · focus · HN ↗

   UTF-8 originally supported up to six-byte encodings (see eg. RFC 2279), but it was restricted to four bytes in 2003 in order to match UTF-16 constraints :(

   1. delamon · 1789892393 · focus · HN ↗

      We still have about 85% of codepoint space unused. Hopefully, by the time it becomes a problem, UTF-16 will be long dead

      1. nasso_dev · 1789893027 · focus · HN ↗

         i hope so too, but UTF-16 being used by languages such as java and javascript makes me fear it might be here to stay.... i hope im wrong

         1. [deleted] · 1789894203 · focus · HN ↗

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