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		bloak on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and... RFC 2279 says: "In UTF-8, characters are encoded using sequences of 1 to 6 octets." That's not technically a standard, but it was widely implemented.

mark-r on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

UTF-8 was originally designed to handle codepoints up to a full 32 bits. It wasn't until later that the codepoint range was restricted so that 4 octets would be sufficient.

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