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by xigoi 25 days ago
Also, the 1.1M limit is because of UTF-16. If UTF-16 was deprecated in favor of UTF-8, the limit could be much higher.
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We need UTF-32. For the future.
UTF-32 already exists, but nobody uses it because it’s much less efficient for most textual data than UTF-8.
UTFv6