UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

UTF-8000 is a proposed extension of UTF-8 that allows arbitrarily large code units by systematically striping start bits across continuation bytes, maintaining UTF-8's self-synchronization properties while supporting unlimited character encoding beyond the standard 4-byte limit. The specification introduces clarity on how to split the highest bits of the first byte into self-synchronization and start bits, with only two special cases inherited from UTF-8: ASCII encoding and 2-byte UTF-8 overlong encoding checks.