title: Why is there no UTF-24?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6339756/why-utf-32-exists-whereas-only-21-bits-are-necessary-to-encode-every-character">Why UTF-32 exists whereas only 21 bits are necessary to encode every character?</a>  </p>
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  <p>The maximum Unicode code point is 0x10FFFF in UTF-32. UTF-32 has 21 information bits and 11 superfluous blank bits. So why is there no UTF-24 encoding (i.e. UTF-32 with the high byte removed) for storing each code point in 3 bytes rather than 4?</p>