I forgot about "Zalgo". You can definitely get more than 4 billion glyphs, indeed a great deal more, by stacking on modifiers.
I can see an argument that that's not really a "valid" use case that we need to worry about too much, though. Emoticons are well on their way to having more possible fully legal, fully intended outputs that go beyond what 32 bits could specify.
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I forgot about "Zalgo". You can definitely get more than 4 billion glyphs, indeed a great deal more, by stacking on modifiers.
I can see an argument that that's not really a "valid" use case that we need to worry about too much, though. Emoticons are well on their way to having more possible fully legal, fully intended outputs that go beyond what 32 bits could specify.