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I mean, I already know some Unicode internals and linguistics (since I developed a language-specific compression algorithm back in the day), but I have never se
by bayindirh 2y ago
I mean, I already know some Unicode internals and linguistics (since I developed a language-specific compression algorithm back in the day), but I have never seen a single character requiring four bytes (and I know Emoji chaining for skin color, etc.).
So, seeing this just moved the complexity of Unicode one notch up in my head, and I respect the guys who designed and made it work. It was not whining or complaining of any sort. :)
- fluoridation 2y agoCuneiform codepoints are 17 bits long. If you're using UTF-16 you'll need two code units to represent a character.
- gpderetta 2y agoyou also need two UTF16 code units for plain emojis.
- TorKlingberg 2y agoLots of emoji are outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and need 4 bytes in UTf-8 and UTF-16. That's without going into skin color and other modifiers and combinations.