alt Hacker NewsAs an aside: UTF-8, as originally specified in RFC 2279, could encode codepoints up to U+7FFFFFFF (using sequences of up to six bytes). It was later restricted to U+10FFFF to ensure compatibility with UTF-16.
As an aside: UTF-8, as originally specified in RFC 2279, could encode codepoints up to U+7FFFFFFF (using sequences of up to six bytes). It was later restricted to U+10FFFF to ensure compatibility with UTF-16.