|
|
|
|
|
by cryptonector
2868 days ago
|
|
No, UTF-8 could, and used to, encode much more than 21 bits of codepoint space. It has been artificially limited to better match UTF-16 -- UTF-16's limits are not artificial but fundamental. If some day we need more bits, we'll simply obsolete UTF-16 and drop those limits on UTF-8. MSFT seems to be taking steps to put UTF-8 on a level or even higher playing field than UTF-16. We should welcome this. |
|