Why is Unicode restricted to 0x10FFFF?
06:31 06 Sep 2018

Why is the maximum Unicode code point restricted to 0x10FFFF? Is it possible to represent Unicode above this code point - for e.g. 0x10FFFF + 0x000001 = 0x110000 - through any encoding schemes like UTF-16, UTF-8?

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