@Aissen@social.treehouse.systems
Post #1333827
2026-03-27 12:19 UTC
The UCS is split in 17 planes, each capable of having 2^16 characters. The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) is the most used. Knowing this is useful for determine how the encoding is done. UTF-32 is wasteful but simple encoding, where each codepoint takes 32 bits.
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@Aissen@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-27 12:19
UTF-16 is the "original sin", Arthur says. It has a hack in the BMP where specific codepoints are used to encode codepoints from other planes using multiple UTF-16 characters. #RustInParis