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UTF-8 can represent up to 1,114,112 characters in Unicode. And in Unicode 15.1 (2023, https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/ https://www.unicode.org/ve
by vishnuharidas 1y ago
UTF-8 can represent up to 1,114,112 characters in Unicode. And in Unicode 15.1 (2023, https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/ https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/) a total of 149,813 characters are included, which covers most of the world's languages, scripts, and emojis. That leaves a 960K space for future expansion.
So, it won't fill up during our lifetime I guess.
- jaza 1y agoI wouldn't be too quick to jump to that conclusion, we could easily shove another 960k emojis into the spec!
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoBlack Santa with 1 freckle, Black Santa with 2 freckles…
- unnouinceput 1y agoWait until we get to know another specie then we will not just fill that Unicode space, but we will ditch any utf-16 compatibility so fast that will make your head spin on a snivel. Imagine the code points we'll need to represent an alien culture :).