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The emoji "" can't be normalized further -- it's a "" followed by a "". If you just split on code points rather than grapheme clusters, even after normalizing,

by mort96 2y ago

The emoji "" can't be normalized further -- it's a "" followed by a "". If you just split on code points rather than grapheme clusters, even after normalizing, your naïve truncation algorithm will have accidentally changed the skin colors of emoji. Or turned the flag of Norway into an "". Or turned the rainbow flag into a white flag . EDIT: oh lord Hacker News strips emoji. You get the idea even though HN ruined the illustrations. Not my fault HN is broken.

recursive 2y ago
Presumably referring to Fitzpatrick modifiers.
tingletech 2y ago
HN is not broken, it's working as designed.
- postmodest 2y ago
  [poop]
- mort96 2y ago
  It makes technical conversations about Unicode ridiculously annoying. It's working as designed and the design is broken.
  - lisper 2y ago
    Whether the absence of emojis on HN is a feature or a bug is arguable. But if you can't figure out a way to work around this constraint (e.g. put your example literally anywhere else on the web and post a link here) HN is probably not a good fit for you.
    - mort96 2y ago
      Reading a discussion thread where each message is just a link to some pastebin with the actual message isn't very nice. Besides, I wasn't going to write the message again after HN removed arbitrary parts of it, hence the edit; I think people got the gist. You may feel that discussion about Unicode doesn't belong on HN but I feel otherwise.
      - lisper 2y ago
        Reading discussion threads full of silly emojis isn't "very nice" either, at least for a certain kind of audience. It's a tradeoff, and the powers that be at HN have decided to optimize for sober discussion over expressivity. It's a defensible decision. Keeping HN from degenerating into Reddit is already hard enough.
        mort96 2y ago
        I'm sure you'd have survived my unsensored message.
        lisper 2y ago
        Of course. It's everyone else's emojis that would get annoying.
AlienRobot 2y ago
More sites should have this bug. Whenever I see a colored icon in the middle of black text I get inexplicably angry.
- mort96 2y ago
  Might I suggest therapy?

by mort96 2y ago

recursive 2y ago

Presumably referring to Fitzpatrick modifiers.

tingletech 2y ago

HN is not broken, it's working as designed.

postmodest 2y ago
[poop]
mort96 2y ago
It makes technical conversations about Unicode ridiculously annoying. It's working as designed and the design is broken.
- lisper 2y ago
  Whether the absence of emojis on HN is a feature or a bug is arguable. But if you can't figure out a way to work around this constraint (e.g. put your example literally anywhere else on the web and post a link here) HN is probably not a good fit for you.
  - mort96 2y ago
    Reading a discussion thread where each message is just a link to some pastebin with the actual message isn't very nice. Besides, I wasn't going to write the message again after HN removed arbitrary parts of it, hence the edit; I think people got the gist. You may feel that discussion about Unicode doesn't belong on HN but I feel otherwise.
    - lisper 2y ago
      Reading discussion threads full of silly emojis isn't "very nice" either, at least for a certain kind of audience. It's a tradeoff, and the powers that be at HN have decided to optimize for sober discussion over expressivity. It's a defensible decision. Keeping HN from degenerating into Reddit is already hard enough.
      - mort96 2y ago
        I'm sure you'd have survived my unsensored message.
        lisper 2y ago
        Of course. It's everyone else's emojis that would get annoying.

AlienRobot 2y ago

More sites should have this bug. Whenever I see a colored icon in the middle of black text I get inexplicably angry.

mort96 2y ago
Might I suggest therapy?