How to waste computer memory?

[Ben Bacarisse]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 10:32:07 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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>> Unicode (the character set part of it) is a set of abstract 23-bit numbers,
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> 23? Or 21?

It's 21.  The reason being (or at least part of the reason being) that
21 bits can be UTF-8 encoded in 4 bytes: 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
10xxxxxx (3 + 3*6).

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Ben.