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> It's fairly easy to insert images into a buffer in Emacs.

Sure and how it is represented in the underlying file? Is this platform independent?

Emoji are just a part of Unicode. As far as I care, I wouldn't mind if Emacs would just render it as [GRINNING FACE U+1f600]

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An emoji minor mode that replaces :emoji: strings is one option. Emoji are unfortunately part of unicode, but here the patch is about coloured face, not emoji specifically.

We're not talking about Emojis, but coloured typeface. Emojis are part of Unicode, coloured typeface are not.

Typefaces are not part of Unicode, coloured or not.

Unicode is a list of glyphs, typefaces are sets of shapes which represent glyphs. Emoji are pictures. Coloured glyphs in Unicode, which include emoji, require compliant typefaces to include some shapes that have a preset colour, and this is illogical, as colour is not the property of the shapes of a type, but of the rendered text. This must stop before Mona Lisa makes it into the Unicode.

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