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meanwhile the Unicode consortium has been hard at work since 1991 to make it possible to encode up to 2.8 MB -- more than enough for most images, short videos,
by logicallee 10y ago
meanwhile the Unicode consortium has been hard at work since 1991 to make it possible to encode up to 2.8 MB -- more than enough for most images, short videos, or many PDF files -- in a single character.
- qwename 10y agoAre you referring to UTF-8? If so, this is misleading as you can encode up to 2^21 + 2^16 + 2^11 + 2^7 = 2,164,864 code points, which is not the same as encoding bytes in a single character.
- logicallee 10y agoI was making a joke about how ridiculously large Unicode is. Obviously it is not 2 million+ bytes per character! (But the fact that you didn't consider my joke obvious speaks volumes).