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Questions - utf-16le

Why does utf-16 only support 2^20 code points?

Well, I'm starting to study unicode now, and I had several doubts, at this moment I'm learning what a plane is, I saw that a plane is a set of 2^16 code points, and that utf-16 encoding supports 17 pl...
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Yuri Bittencourt

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unicode-normalization

utf-16le

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Have a look at how surrogate pairs encode a character U >= 0x10000: U' = yyyyyyyyyyxxxxxxxxxx // U - 0x10000 W1 = 110110yyyyyyyyyy // 0xD800 + yyyyyyyyyy W2 = 110111xxxxxxxxxx // 0xDC00 ...
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