Some older platforms (older android and older ubuntu touch, possibly also kaiOS) have problems with unicode emoji rendering even when updating the emoji fonts.
To solve that we should add a mode (not do it by default) where the emojis are parsed into their own element, so the platforms can display via a custom function that renders the emoji from a sprite map for example.
The emoji elements should include the whole grapheme cluster (“user-perceived character”) in a single emoji element:
so both regional indicators that represent a country flag
face emojis with skin color
combined emojis such as family
gendered emojis
and other emojis that consist of multiple unicode characters
lk108
commented
9 months ago
Some older platforms (older android and older ubuntu touch, possibly also kaiOS) have problems with unicode emoji rendering even when updating the emoji fonts.
To solve that we should add a mode (not do it by default) where the emojis are parsed into their own element, so the platforms can display via a custom function that renders the emoji from a sprite map for example.
The emoji elements should include the whole grapheme cluster (“user-perceived character”) in a single emoji element:
https://github.com/deltachat/message-parser/pull/56 already adds correct emoji parsing of those clusters, so we should take it's code as base for this.
@lk108 might need this for proper emoji support on ubuntu touch