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Re: UTF-32


From: Ulrich Mueller
Subject: Re: UTF-32
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:20:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.3 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> 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



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