In case hacker news doesn't show emoji, I meant m( Right, I guess I was thinking more of "not a power of 2" instead of "not a multiple of 8". On second though

In case hacker news doesn't show emoji, I meant m( Right, I guess I was thinking more of "not a power of 2" instead of "not a multiple of 8". On second thought, the author might have meant "Sorry that the exponent is not a multiple of 8" as in Unicode neither has 2^16 nor 2^32 code points.