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There's no complexity to combining characters Except that all of it needs to be translated to code, it involves operations with color (or multiplying the numbe

There's no complexity to combining characters Except that all of it needs to be translated to code, it involves operations with color (or multiplying the number of certain icons by 5), it needs to have a slightly different behavior (i.e. more code) on black-and-white screens, and so on. And just because there is already high level of complexity involved in something does not mean you should gleefully add to it.

masklinn 11y ago
Combining characters and ligatures have existed since Unicode 1.0 in 1991, skin colors aren't a different mechanism and if they require more code because you've hardcoded either I'm sorry to report you're a moron. The only thing which may have required more code is multi-color font glyphs and that's not a new things of emoji skin colors that was at best a new optional thing back when emoji were first introduced. > it needs to have a slightly different behavior (i.e. more code) on black-and-white screens No?