Re: Entering emojis

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> So perhaps we should just keep the current behaviour (or have a user
> option to change it).

A more ticklish question is what we should do with out string primitives
(if anything).  For instance:

(string-limit "Hello, 👨🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾" 8)
=> "Hello, 👨"

and

(truncate-string-to-width "👨🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏾" 2 nil t)
=> "👨"

which is...  uhm...  In a way, this grapheme cluster thing is slightly
like it was during the shift to utf-8, when not all string primitives
worked on characters, but bytes instead.  Less dramatic, of course, but.

I think we'll be seeing many amusing display glitches in this area.  🥲

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