On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 9:13 PM Martin J. Dürst via Unicode < [email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry to be late with this, but if 20.1 bits turn out to not be enough, > what about 21 bits? > > That would still limit UTF-8 to four bytes, but would almost double the > code space. Assuming (conservatively) that it will take about a century > to fill up all 17 (well, actually 15, because two are private) planes, > this would give us another century. > > Just one more crazy idea :-(. > It seems hard to estimate the value of that, without knowing why we ran out of characters. A slow collection of a huge number of Chinese ideographs and new Native American scripts, maybe. Access to a library with a trillion works over billions of years from millions of species, probably not. Given that we're in no risk of running out of characters right now, speculating on this seems pointless.
