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Diagram illustrating the internal structure of a UTF-8000 code unit
2026-07-04 · HN #49772677

UTF-8000: An Experimental Extension for Unlimited UTF-8 Character Encoding

UTF-8000 is a proposed extension to the standard UTF-8 character encoding that allows for arbitrarily large code units by introducing a mechanism to stripe start bits across multiple bytes, theoretically enabling the representation of an unlimited range of codepoints.