On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 6:20 PM Patrik Fältström <[email protected]> wrote:

> Last, regarding emojis...all people I have talked with regarding emojis
> have been kind of naive. Emojis as defined by Unicode consortium is in
> reality a bit more complicated than the rest of the unicode characters, and
> that have to do with the modifiers. Both modifiers for "skin tone"
> equivalents, but also modifiers that merge different emojis. For example
> white flag and rainbow that together create the rainbow flag emoji.
>

Yes, of course. You have to get this right to count characters on Twitter
or equivalent.

I wrote it:
https://github.com/sayrer/twitter-text/blob/cxx/rust/twitter-text/src/lib.rs

It's in combination with a PEG grammar there.

I think this is all pretty misguided, tbh. There are hot beverage domain
names on the loose, and we are not going to reign them in. Just accept it.

thanks,
Rob
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