> Is there a language that consistently uses codepoints with more than 2 bytes?
There are definitely (small) communities using scripts that lie entirely in the SMP. For example, Mru, Adlam, Takri, Pracalit, Miao, Wancho, etc. Most of these are either historic scripts that have mostly been supplanted by unified ones (esp. Devanagari) but retain usage in some areas, or languages that did not have a pre-colonial writing system that are attempting to reclaim cultural identity with a new script.
But yes, I don't think there are major communities that consistently do so. My anecdata from a few Mandarin- and Japanese-speaking friends is that SIP characters rarely occur.
Really if anything, emoji obsessives, mathematicians using bold/fraktur characters, and historical linguists/anthropologists would have the biggest savings.
There are definitely (small) communities using scripts that lie entirely in the SMP. For example, Mru, Adlam, Takri, Pracalit, Miao, Wancho, etc. Most of these are either historic scripts that have mostly been supplanted by unified ones (esp. Devanagari) but retain usage in some areas, or languages that did not have a pre-colonial writing system that are attempting to reclaim cultural identity with a new script.
But yes, I don't think there are major communities that consistently do so. My anecdata from a few Mandarin- and Japanese-speaking friends is that SIP characters rarely occur.
Really if anything, emoji obsessives, mathematicians using bold/fraktur characters, and historical linguists/anthropologists would have the biggest savings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mru_language#Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlam_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takri_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pracalit_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollard_script