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nasso_devtoday at 8:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

i hope so too, but UTF-16 being used by languages such as java and javascript makes me fear it might be here to stay.... i hope im wrong


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hnlmorgtoday at 9:12 AM

The number of glyphs available by adding additional bytes drops exponentially because each subsequent byte has one less bit available.

So I think if we ever were in a situation where > 1 million code points isn’t enough, then we should look at an entirely new way to serialise those code points.

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