alt Hacker NewsUTF-16 also had a bunch of unfortunate ramifications on the overall design of Unicode, e.g. requiring a substantial chunk of BMP to be reserved for surrogate characters and forcing Unicode codepoints to be limited to U+10FFFF.
UTF-16 also had a bunch of unfortunate ramifications on the overall design of Unicode, e.g. requiring a substantial chunk of BMP to be reserved for surrogate characters and forcing Unicode codepoints to be limited to U+10FFFF.