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Comment by duskwuff

2 hours ago

As an aside: UTF-8, as originally specified in RFC 2279, could encode codepoints up to U+7FFFFFFF (using sequences of up to six bytes). It was later restricted to U+10FFFF to ensure compatibility with UTF-16.

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