[BRLTTY] Contracted emojis?

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Thu Sep 27 15:24:45 EDT 2018


[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2018/09/27 at 15:05 -0400]

>That's a good idea. I hope they've all been grouped into a defined set of
>character classes which we could then automatically check for. 

Yes, emoji characters can be identified via icu by checking if they have the
binary property UCHAR_EMOJI. This, of course, is for single characters. If,
however, an emoji is built by adding combining characters to a base character
then I don't think that we can easily query its name.

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