"A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

[Doug Ewell]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:

>> I didn’t say you never needed to work with code points. What I said
>> is that there’s no advantage to UCS-4 as an encoding, and that
>
> Well, you do have eleven bits for flags per codepoint, for example. 

That's not UCS-4; that's a custom encoding.

(any UCS-4 code unit) & 0xFFE00000 == 0
 
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