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It is unfortunate that they left off rfc4042: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042, particularly since we are running out of

by wglb 8y ago

It is unfortunate that they left off rfc4042: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042, particularly since we are running out of room in bytes to stuff more bits.

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masklinn 8y ago
> we are running out of room in bytes to stuff more bits. The unicode codespace is composed of 17 16-bit planes, and so has room for 1114112 codepoints. As of Unicode 11, 137439 are allocated. And while UTF-8 has been restricted to only support 21 bits (which already allows almost 1 million more USV than actually allowed), the encoding scheme (and pre-2003 UTF-8) supports 31 bits of payload.
- gpvos 8y ago
  Note the date of the RFC.
  - wglb 8y ago
    Of all of the ones on that date, this is my favorite.
gumby 8y ago
Apart from the date I think many modern programmers aren't aware of the influential PDP-10 (Mark was a PDP-10 programmer, which is how we met in the early 80s). The PDP-10 had 36-bit words which were byte addressable -- and bytes could range from 1-63 bits in length. So beyond the humorous language (nonets, septets) and inline PDP-10 assembly examples this was a absurdist joke intended to appeal on several levels.