Re: UTF-32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:20:07 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 07 Jul 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> On a different tangent, Emacs doesn't seem to know about UTF-32, which
> >> I find a little surprising.
> >> 
> >> Is there simply no need for that encoding, or am I missing something?
> 
> > There's no need.  We don't support character codepoints that are wider
> > than 32 bits.
> 
> IIUC UTF-32 (aka UCS-4) encodes only Unicode codepoints, and it encodes
> every character as 4 bytes.
> 
> https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr19/tr19-9.html

Yes, I know.  Not sure why you posted this, though.  If you are saying
that this somehow contradicts what I wrote above, please elaborate,
because I don't see the contradiction.