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No. They exist to encode 31 bits of codepoint space, but later the UC decided to limit the codepoint space to only 21 bits because that is what UTF-16 is limit
by cryptonector 6y ago
No. They exist to encode 31 bits of codepoint space, but later the UC decided to limit the codepoint space to only 21 bits because that is what UTF-16 is limited to, and then UTF-8 no longer needed to support sequences of 5 and 6 bytes.