Re: Entering emojis

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> If you want them to display correctly in Emacs youʼre going to have to
> use the sequences in emoji-zwj-sequences.txt and emoji-sequences.txt

I'm using the labels file, because it had better taxonomy...

> The field in emoji-zwj-sequences.txt is called 'descriptions', and I
> think theyʼre not intended to be normative in any way, so probably
> best to use the base codepoint.

Right...  So in emoji-sequences, we have

1F46E..1F4AC  ; Basic_Emoji                  ; police officer                   
                              # E0.6  [63] (👮..💬)

and then

1F46E 1F3FB   ; RGI_Emoji_Modifier_Sequence  ; police officer: light skin tone  
                              # E1.0   [1] (👮🏻)
1F46E 1F3FC   ; RGI_Emoji_Modifier_Sequence  ; police officer: medium-light 
skin tone                         # E1.0   [1] (👮🏼)
1F46E 1F3FD   ; RGI_Emoji_Modifier_Sequence  ; police officer: medium skin tone 
                              # E1.0   [1] (👮🏽)

and then in the zwj file we have

1F46E 200D 2640 FE0F                        ; RGI_Emoji_ZWJ_Sequence  ; woman 
police officer                                           # E4.0   [1] (👮‍♀️)
1F46E 200D 2642 FE0F                        ; RGI_Emoji_ZWJ_Sequence  ; man 
police officer                                             # E4.0   [1] (👮‍♂️)
1F46E 1F3FB 200D 2640 FE0F                  ; RGI_Emoji_ZWJ_Sequence  ; woman 
police officer: light skin tone                          # E4.0   [1] (👮🏻‍♀️)
1F46E 1F3FB 200D 2642 FE0F                  ; RGI_Emoji_ZWJ_Sequence  ; man 
police officer: light skin tone                            # E4.0   [1] (👮🏻‍♂️)

So that all matches up, and I can go from 1F46E and get all the
variants.  Seems very promising; I'll give it a go.

But...  I can't go from "woman police officer" to "woman police officer:
light skin tone" by looking at the first code point.  Er...  what's the
rule here, then?

1F46E plus 2640 as the next-to-last code point?

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