alt Hacker NewsUTF-8 originally supported up to six-byte encodings (see eg. RFC 2279), but it was restricted to four bytes in 2003 in order to match UTF-16 constraints :(
UTF-8 originally supported up to six-byte encodings (see eg. RFC 2279), but it was restricted to four bytes in 2003 in order to match UTF-16 constraints :(
We still have about 85% of codepoint space unused. Hopefully, by the time it becomes a problem, UTF-16 will be long dead