UTF-8000

Unlimited UTF-8!


I have discovered the correct way to extend UTF-8 indefinitely. Maybe in 250 years time we might need it! The general variable-width ‘ASCVI’-style specification also allows one to create infinite-size private sub-extensions of Unicode using as little as 8 private-use Unicode codepoints.

I have made a one-page specification and reference implementation available.

Main website: utf-8000.jb2170.com.

Submitted as my entry to SoME 2026.

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