[celeritascelery]

> Of course this also means that we have trade offs. We don't support fully international text like pretty much every other application will. RTL? No go zone right now. Surrogate pairs and emoji? We're getting there but not there yet. Indic scripts? Nope.

I find it interesting that Even though I don’t care about any of the above features, I still pay for them working with text in other applications. They are a constant tax on latency. It would be great if applications had a “ascii” mode and a “full” mode. You can take the performance or the features, but you can’t have both.

[cogman10]

I could be wrong, but I think the payment for one pays for the others. International text is one of those "a large portion of the world wants this" sorts of features. Once you've gotten that, emojis sort of come along for the ride.

[cryptonector]

Emojis add complexity that other scripts don't, mostly in the form of color processing (all other scripts are monochrome!).