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by kps 683 days ago
Unicode is OK (flawed but OK), emoji in Unicode suck.

The worst part is Unicode breaking existing documents by retroactively converting some common symbols emoji-default, despite supposed stability guarantees.

The second worst part is the emoji combining sequences becoming an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

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> The second worst part is the emoji combining sequences [...]

That was the main reason for me to pull in harfbuzz. At least it "just resolves" those sequences to glyph indices.