UTF-16 surrogates are code-points, but UTF-8 prohibits encoding them. However unicode strings are sequences of unicode scalar values and can't contain surrogate

UTF-16 surrogates are code-points, but UTF-8 prohibits encoding them. However unicode strings are sequences of unicode scalar values and can't contain surrogates, so you can encode every unicode string in UTF-8. (There is the WTF-8 encoding, which allows unpaired surrogates under certain circumstances. This can be useful for losslessly storing wide-strings (unvalidated UTF-16) in a UTF-8 like encoding, which are used by Windows, C#, Java and Javascript)