Re: Entering emojis

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> But perhaps we should have one new primitive here -- something like
>> string-glyph-split -- that would split a string into a list of strings
>> where each string represents a complete glyph.
>
> You mean, a complete grapheme cluster, I presume.

Well, the grapheme cluster represents a glyph.  :-)

> That could be done, I think, by using the information returned by the
> composition stuff; see find-composition.

Yup.  And then we'd change truncate-string-to-width to be based on that
new function, or change truncate-string-to-width in a similar way?

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