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by vishnuharidas 277 days ago
UTF-8 can represent up to 1,114,112 characters in Unicode. And in Unicode 15.1 (2023, https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/) a total of 149,813 characters are included, which covers most of the world's languages, scripts, and emojis. That leaves a 960K space for future expansion.

So, it won't fill up during our lifetime I guess.
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jaza 277 days ago
I wouldn't be too quick to jump to that conclusion, we could easily shove another 960k emojis into the spec!
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BeFlatXIII 276 days ago
Black Santa with 1 freckle, Black Santa with 2 freckles…
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unnouinceput 277 days ago
Wait until we get to know another specie then we will not just fill that Unicode space, but we will ditch any utf-16 compatibility so fast that will make your head spin on a snivel.

Imagine the code points we'll need to represent an alien culture :).

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