Then it will be expanded, and UTF-16 will be put to rest, and UTF-8 liberated to encode the full 32-bit namespace. Hopefully we're a few decades away from that

Then it will be expanded, and UTF-16 will be put to rest, and UTF-8 liberated to encode the full 32-bit namespace. Hopefully we're a few decades away from that eventuality... I do hope the UC is reserving enough codepoints for existing human languages, and new Han/Kanji.