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Re: Why UTF8 need 24bit in MySQL?

From: Ryan Chan (ryanchan404gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 08 2010 - 07:54:21 CDT

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Warren Young <warrenetr-usa.com> wrote:
>  The Unicode consortium has stated that Unicode will
> never require more than 21 bits per character[*], and 24 bits is the next
> even multiple of 8 up from that.

Maybe off topic, but just curious...If 3 bytes is enough for all
Unicode codepoint, then what is the user of 4byte UTF-8 ?

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