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Constraining Unicode encodings to a fewer than 4 bytes means we limit how many countries can use text interfaces in their language. Or how much data from those
by falcolas 4y ago
Constraining Unicode encodings to a fewer than 4 bytes means we limit how many countries can use text interfaces in their language. Or how much data from those countries can be passed between programs.
- blueflow 4y agoWe do not have enough countries to fill up all that space. For UTF-8 with a 4-byte restriction, less than 18% of the available space is currently allocated to blocks.