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I agree. Specifically, emojis are not text and I don't really care what edge cases they introduce. It's neat if someone wants to put the work in, but that's not
by bigstrat2003 2y ago
I agree. Specifically, emojis are not text and I don't really care what edge cases they introduce. It's neat if someone wants to put the work in, but that's not the meat of "text editing" and isn't really worth worrying about.
- samatman 2y agoEmoji are text in all the ways that matter to a programmer. There are codepoints in Unicode which aren't textual, but emoji are not among them. Emoji don't introduce any edge cases of their own. If your software can't join a skin tone to a thumbs up, it also will fall apart on composing many scripts used by hundreds of millions of people. So if you really want to get all kids-these-days about emoji, go ahead, but support Unicode properly. You'll get correct emoji handling as a consequence of that anyway, and you can still signal whatever message you're intending to send here about yourself in some other way.
- fsckboy 2y agoASCII is text in all the ways that matter to a programmer.
- keybored 2y agoThat doesn’t change anything as long as there are scripts that use the same building blocks that emojis use.