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Unicode 13 uses 143859 code points. 21 bits can encode more than 10x of that. And there are not that many languages left to add. We are already debating elvish. I am not sure what would warrant extending the coding scheme if we are already on the level of fictional languages today. Also note that many things like flags or emoji skin colors, etc. are now done via grapheme clusters, which conserves code points.


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