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

2019-10-25 Thread Sam Whited
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019, at 18:32, Marvin W wrote: > 1) At some point we might want to allow the usage of UTF-16 or any >other encoding. Byte counts would have to be translated when re- >encoding which a server is probably unable to do generically. XMPP uses UTF-8, and there's almost no

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

2019-10-25 Thread Marvin W
On 10/25/19 3:15 PM, Sam Whited wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2019, at 18:32, Marvin W wrote: XMPP uses UTF-8, and there's almost no reason to use anything but UTF-8. I do agree that this is true inside XMPP, but the data being transported inside XMPP might be transcoded to non-xmpp transport

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

2019-10-25 Thread Sam Whited
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, at 14:25, Marvin W wrote: > Yes and no. multi-codepoint emojis are still valid characters when > split, whereas multi-byte codepoints cannot be split. There is > nothing wrong with displaying the flag  as ​ *, so your > implementation is always capable in strictly