Re: scratch/emoji vs emacs that maybe canʼt display emojis

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> We could perhaps introduce some heuristics based on the first
> character of the composition, for example that the result of composing
> CH cannot be narrower than CH itself.  But that will only work up to a
> point.  E.g., AFAIR some Emoji has the width of 1.

Perhaps it depends on the font, too?  I'm pretty sure that none of the
composed emojis in Noto Color Emoji have a width of 1, but that's
basically the only emoji font I've been futzing around with.

> And then there are terminal emulators that do some preposterous stuff,
> assuming that their tail can wag the dog.  See PROBLEMS and search for
> "kitty", for some fun.

Heh.

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