Doug,
Most likely because no modern computer uses a 3-byte (24-bit) internal
processing unit, and because it would be false economy for real-world
Unicode text (see (1) and (2) above).
What would be worse is to have an implementation like the old IBM 360 computers where
the 24 bit addresses
Pim Blokland wrote:
Why is there no UTF-24?
Well, I once proposed UTF-20...
See, these MathText characters take up a lot of space. No matter how
you encode them; UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32; they always are 4 bytes
long.
True for them alone, in those UTFs. Short of defining another Unicode encoding,
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