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Re:Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:22PM (#25130044)
> you can encode with only two bytes (e.g. UTF-16)

UTF-16 is variable width, not two bytes, and it can encode any Unicode character.

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Re:Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere by toxik on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:27PM (#25130105)
OP probably meant UCS-2.
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