Mr Mills's reading skills, as often, are apparently deficient today. David Cray can defend himself, but what he said was that encodings with fewer bits [than 32 or 16] would be subsets NOT that UTF-32 and UTF-16 were themselves subsets. (Even this is, of course, admissible mathematically. All of the members of a set constitute a subset of that set . When mathematicians wish to exclude this case, they speak and write of a proper subset.)
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