https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509925

--- Comment #7 from Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 
<[email protected]> ---
That's just a way to reproduce it. It's not the usual cause.

Rather, I believe that I first noticed it with an older version of the
uncoloured Noto font, on Fedora. Noto has since resolved the problem, but
many/most fonts still don't support many emoji characters, and Noto isn't
available in the default repositories of all distributions.

Anything that parses UTF-8 should expect to support variable widths, and emoji
is no different. Considering that two characters appears to be the maximum that
a combination can span, all that needs to change is the application support one
and two-character combinations, rather than solely one.

However, if this matters, there does exist a use case (which I'd forgotten that
I'd actually done myself once): as
https://reddit.com/comments/1dyqc6a/comment/lccu21m corroborates, on my LINX
1010, and some postmarketOS devices, the ⪆ 700 MiB that Noto requires can
matter, when your free storage is 5 GiB.

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