RE: Are there [start] emoji [end] style codes?

Doug Ewell via Unicode <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:30:20 +0000

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Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

> back when Unicode officially limited itself to 17 planes instead of
> the 65535 planes of full-blown (at the time) ISO-10646.

It was actually 32,768 planes, so that the highest code point would be 0x7FFFFFFF and would fit in a 32-bit signed integer. This was considered important because of the existence of programming languages like Java that did not have unsigned integer types.

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