> The current largest codepoint? Why that would be a cheese wedge at U+1F9C0. How did we ever communicate before this?
Sounds cute, but inaccurate.
If we count the last two planes that are reserved for private use (aka, applications/users can use them for whatever domain problems they like), that would be U+10FFFD.
If we count the variation selector codepoints (used for things like changing skin tone, or the look of certain other characters), U+E01EF.
If we count the last honestly-for-real-written-language character assigned, it would be 𪘀 U+2FA1D CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA.
But I suppose none of that sounds as fun as an emoji (which are really a very small part of the Unicode standard).
I tried to look up what U+2FA1D, the highest-numbered printable character, means in context.
It is a Traditional Chinese character. It's a variant of U+2F600, 𪘀, which is pronounced "pián". It apparently is used in zero words. It's in Unicode because it's listed in the 7th section of TCA-CNS 11643-1992, a Taiwanese computing standard.
Searching for it gives lots of sites that acknowledge that it's a character that exists and then provide no definition for it.
My guess: it occurred in someone's name at some point. Pretty strange that it ended up requiring a compatibility mapping, though, when nobody seems to use the character or the character it's mapped to!
Sounds cute, but inaccurate.
If we count the last two planes that are reserved for private use (aka, applications/users can use them for whatever domain problems they like), that would be U+10FFFD.
If we count the variation selector codepoints (used for things like changing skin tone, or the look of certain other characters), U+E01EF.
If we count the last honestly-for-real-written-language character assigned, it would be 𪘀 U+2FA1D CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA.
But I suppose none of that sounds as fun as an emoji (which are really a very small part of the Unicode standard).