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new 9243c4d minor tweaks
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commit 9243c4dd19f6512eaa245c354b434cc3cff19d48
Author: Paul King <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 20 10:47:58 2023 +1000
minor tweaks
---
site/src/site/blog/seasons-greetings-emoji.adoc | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/site/src/site/blog/seasons-greetings-emoji.adoc
b/site/src/site/blog/seasons-greetings-emoji.adoc
index 2506512..3721bb8 100644
--- a/site/src/site/blog/seasons-greetings-emoji.adoc
+++ b/site/src/site/blog/seasons-greetings-emoji.adoc
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ image:img/emoji5.png[using isEmoji]
Another sequencing trick offered by Unicode is to combine related
emojis to form new ones with an intervening _zero width joiner_ (ZWJ).
For example, you might combine the woman emoji, "👩", possibly with
-an additional skin tone emoji, then a ZWJ character,
+an additional skin tone emoji, then a ZWJ character (Unicode 200D in hex),
followed by the rocket emoji "🚀", which combined gives
a female astronaut emoji "👩🏽🚀".
@@ -107,19 +107,21 @@ We can check the exact Unicode characters using regex's
`\x{...}` notation,
noting that we don't use surrogate pairs. We can also check the
emoji names using the `\N{...}` notation.
-Combinations aren't limited to size two. One "family" emoji combination
-combined 3 emojis, again with ZWJ characters.
+Combinations aren't limited to size two. One of the possible "family" emoji
combinations
+combines 3 emojis, with interleaved ZWJ characters.
image:img/emoji7.png[using isEmoji]
-We can do similar regex checks.
+We can do similar regex checks as previously, checking the
+exact Unicode values or the names.
As a final example, let's look at the "🙋🏻♀️" emoji.
Looking at the first line of code below might lead us to think we have combined
three characters, but checking the size shows there are 5 parts to the
-combined emoji. The "🙋🏻" emoji combines a base emoji with a skin tone.
+combined emoji. The first and last emojis are already combinations.
+The "🙋🏻" emoji combines a base emoji with a skin tone.
The "♀️" emoji combines the female sign character "♀" with a special
-_variation selector_, which indicates that the previous character
+_variation selector_ character, which indicates that the previous character
should be treated as an emoji rather than a character.
image:img/emoji8.png[using isEmoji]
