For one emoji to represent 3 bytes in an encoding, you'd need 224 ~ 16.7M unique emojis. With 2600 emojis, the best you could do is have each one represent 11 b

For one emoji to represent 3 bytes in an encoding, you'd need 224 ~ 16.7M unique emojis. With 2600 emojis, the best you could do is have each one represent 11 bits (which requires 2048 unique emojis). Am I missing something here...?