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  1. mqus · · focus · HN ↗
    Some ideas of what to do with this space:

    - fully-customizable emojis (think of a RPG-like character customization screen)

    - heck, why not full jpegs/gifs?

    - some unicode programming script (running Doom)

    - ?

    That said, some very minor (HN-style) nitpick:

    > Otherwise for an n byte code unit this is (5n+1) / 8n, that is 5n+1 content bits out of a total of 8n bits from n bytes. We can rewrite this as (5/8) + 1/(8n) which moderately quickly approaches 5/8 = 62.5%. It is nice that this limit is nonzero and does not depend on n.

    Isn't a limit by definition no longer dependent on n?

    1. jeroenhd · · focus · HN ↗
      U+E000–U+F8FF, U+F0000–U+FFFFD, and U+100000–U+10FFFD can already provide you with your own emoji, as that range has been reserved for private use. Extending the range further might make sense if you need even more space in your program, but that's a lot of space already.
      1. grumbelbart · · focus · HN ↗
        The point is probably to encode the emoji (image) in the codepoint itself.
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