Besides the difference in how characters are stored, are there any special characters in any language utf-32 can display and utf-8 cannot?
Besides the difference in how characters are stored, are there any special characters in
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Besides the difference in how characters are stored, are there any special characters in any language utf-32 can display and utf-8 cannot?
All UTF encodings can represent the same range of code points (0 to 0x10FFFF). So, the same characters can be encoded by any of them.
Whether they can be “displayed” is an entirely different question. That’s nothing to do with the encoding, and a function of the font family used. I am not sure that any font has glyphs for every single Unicode code point. But I assume you meant “represented”.
They do vary in how many bytes they’ll need to represent a given string. UTF-8 is almost always the shortest for non-Asian languages. For those, UTF-16 might win (I haven’t really “benchmarked”.) I can’t imagine a realistic case where UTF-32 would be optimal.