Re: [Standards] Support for stickers (custom emojis)

2019-10-21 Thread Sam Whited
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, at 18:39, JC Brand wrote: > You don't need tons of ways, you can just follow the instructions. If > the sending client is buggy, then this will become clear over time. "Following the instructions" may mean different things to different clients in this case. One might treat i

Re: [Standards] Support for stickers (custom emojis)

2019-10-21 Thread Sam Whited
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019, at 14:06, Jonathan Lennox wrote: > The right concept here is probably "grapheme clusters", as defined in > Unicode Standard Annex 29. ICU has support for this. This was also my suggestion at a summit a few years ago. However, the downside here is that it significantly increa

Re: [Standards] Support for stickers (custom emojis)

2019-10-21 Thread Jonathan Lennox
On Saturday, October 19 2019, "Sam Whited" wrote to "standards@xmpp.org" saying: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019, at 04:57, JC Brand wrote: > > You might still have an offset in between two codepoints that should > > ideally be shown together like "EU" making the EU flag, but this seems > > less of an issu