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> Let's say we want to display the emoji for a brown man, “<brown man>”. There isn't a code point for that. Instead we use “<man> ZWJ <brown>”.
(with the emoji replaced, as I expect HN would strip them).
That's inaccurate: skin tone modifiers are used directly after a base emoji character, without a zero-width joiner in between.
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> Let's say we want to display the emoji for a brown man, “<brown man>”. There isn't a code point for that. Instead we use “<man> ZWJ <brown>”.
(with the emoji replaced, as I expect HN would strip them).
That's inaccurate: skin tone modifiers are used directly after a base emoji character, without a zero-width joiner in between.