GoKawiilProposal 'UTF-8000' for unbounded UTF-8 draws pushback from original UTF-8 co-creators
A developer named Jay published a proposal called UTF-8000 aiming to remove the size limits of standard UTF-8 encoding, and reached out to Ken Thompson and other researchers behind earlier extension schemes for feedback. Ken Thompson replied with a technical observation about a zigzag signed variant requiring full code-unit reads for string comparison, while another correspondent, Thomas Eugene Bishop, pushed back on the proposal's framing, objecting to language calling rival schemes 'rejected' and disputing the claim that Larry Wall's UTF-8 extension is 'inextensible'.