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Re:Show HN by lelanthran on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:34AM (#33844217)
> In the same way that since we identify unicode code points with a 16-bit value

Not a single 16-bit value. Some codepoints are two 16-bit values.

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Re:Show HN by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:43PM (#33845386)
Codepoints are 21-bit values. They may have a more compact encoding but the unencoded form is fixed.
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