Re: Thoughts on upsizing Unicode (was: Re: Are there [start] emoji [end] style codes?)

Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:26:08 -0700

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On 3/30/2026 8:47 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> High and low surrogates carry 10 bits of payload each, so I’m curious where the 31st bit in a triple comes from.
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Well, duh, from writing it on the edge of the triple, not the surface.

Lots of wasted space there.

A./