Re: UTF-8 testing

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, David Given wrote:
>
> Yeah, Unicode only goes up to 0x10ffff (he says after he looks it up). I
> expect that the next time they expand it they'll add the fifth octet to
> UTF-8.

They have promised not to expand Unicode beyond 0x10ffff because that is
the largest codepoint that can be represented in UTF-16.

Tony.
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