Subject: Re: bug#63731: [PATCH] Support Emoji Variation Sequence 16 (FE0F) where appropriate

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:20:08 +0200

>>>>> On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:57:04 +0200, Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> said:

>>>>> On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:35:37 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:
    >>> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
    >>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
    >>> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:27:28 +0200
    >>> 
    Eli> Hmm... I though just changing the fontset in fontset.el would be
    Eli> enough.
    >>> 
    >>> Itʼs almost enough to do that, and to check if the triggering
    >>> character is U+FE0E, bu then we fall foul of the composition rule
    >>> forward/backward issue again.

    Eli> Which forward rules would conflict with a backward rule triggered by
    Eli> U+FE0E?

    Robert> All the ones for the non-emoji codepoints that still need to be
    Robert> composed as emoji sometimes, eg U+261D:

Oh, and all the <foo>+skin tone ones. And probably more.

Robert
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