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Unicode, some emojis are comprised of two characters (two emojis) put together, thus are two characters. Often one is the main character, and the second is the
by drannex 6y ago
Unicode, some emojis are comprised of two characters (two emojis) put together, thus are two characters. Often one is the main character, and the second is the variation code.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42679712/why-does-the-red-heart-emoji-require-two-code-points-but-the-other-colored-hear https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42679712/why-does-the-re...
- renewiltord 6y agoThanks, I happen to know about the combinations (they're also called out in the article). But the multichar ones are combined with more than two. So if you can consider four to be two, why not simply consider four to be one.
- fphhotchips 6y agoThe only logic I can think of is that the equivalent text based emoticons - :), :(, :D, D:, etc - are usually 2 chars.
- renewiltord 6y agoThat's pretty good haha. Though there are exceptions it's generally true.