Re: scratch/emoji vs emacs that maybe canʼt display emojis

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:25:14 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
    >> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:05:35 +0100
    >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> 
    >> I'm surprised that emojis work as well as they do on the terminal.  🙀
    >> But it seems that there's some work to be done on the display side if we
    >> want this to be more...  consistent...

    Eli> I'm not sure how to make it better.  For starters, each Unicode
    Eli> version adds gobs of new Emoji sequences, and the terminal emulators
    Eli> need to keep up.  They don't always, or not as fast as we do.

    Eli> People who want a good display of Emoji shouldn't do that on TTY
    Eli> frames, that's all I can say.  With some TTYs, just disabling
    Eli> auto-composition-mode is enough, or almost so.  Maybe we should have a
    Eli> special minor mode that disables only compositions of Emoji.

Iʼm not necessarily looking for good display of emoji's on a TTY, but
Iʼd like the entering of them to work correctly (and it currently
doesnʼt, as I said in the very first message of this thread :-) )

Robert
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