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Comment by lifthrasiir | Hacker News Reader

HN discards emojis in the title. The original emoji was https://emojipedia.org/man-facepalming-medium-light-skin-ton... which consists of 5 Unicode code points.

Also please make sure to read the first heading after the title, which summarizes the whole point of this essay.

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Ok, we've remojied the title above.

Edit: there are always exceptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460417

Interestingly, Firefox on Wayland renders the emoji correctly in the tab title, but the window title renders it as two rectangles and the male symbol. I assume this must be some difference between system fonts vs Firefox's fonts.

dang is definitely wrong about what “plain text” means in that thread.

Happy to wrong but when saying something like that, you should explain why and how, so we can all learn something!

Plain text is often contrasted with markup or rich text. UTF-8 text is neither markup nor rich text.

That makes more sense. I'm sure there could be some language out there where a empty strings length could be 7.

I have to admit, I gave that thought a bit too much time before I clicked the link and discovered what the title should have said

Based on the title, I assumed it was gonna be something about smart quotes, and I thought, "of course, another reason to hate smart quotes!"

Not sure if HN will handle it, but this empty string's length is 7: ' '

( '\u200b'.repeat(7) )

Edit: HN does not, in fact, handle it.

HN does, in fact, handle it, and chose to discard it.

You need to use the latest and greatest:

Awww dang they updated the filter, booo

You can remove the word "they" from your comment and it'll still work for this site.

In the CIA since of "we need to handle these democratically elected leaders", perhaps.

But if I was selling you a drop-in comment widget and boasted "it handles all of Unicode", but really I was just running s/[^ -~]+/ /g, wouldn't you feel a bit let down?

Today I learned, that multi-glyph emojis are a thing.

Zero width joiner emoji sequences https://emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequence/

Was definitely confused on the meaning of that one haha. Thanks for the info!

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