RE: Thoughts on upsizing Unicode

Doug Ewell via Unicode <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Apr 2026 04:19:10 +0000
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Sławomir Osipiuk wrote:

> should we ever find ourselves in a world that needs a bigger Unicode
> AND still uses UTF-16.

My hope is that, if the world ever does need more than 15 non-PUA planes for whatever reason, it will have moved on from UTF-16 by then, and the choice can be between -8 and -32.

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