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by jwilk 2866 days ago
Yes, UTF-16 can encode all currently valid Unicode codepoints, which is more than 2²⁰ but less than 2²¹. But cryptonector doesn't believe it will be enough in the future.

OTOH, UTF-8, as originally defined, can encode 2³¹ codepoints.