In <[email protected]>, on 10/29/2013
   at 09:03 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> said:

>I'm guessing that John is referring to UTF-32 or UTF-16 and 
>subsets would be encodings with fewer bits.

UTF-8 is not a subset. Presumably either he was referring to UCS-2,
which contains only the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), or he was
confused.
 
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