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Re:Is This an Emoji? by Kerrick on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:30PM (#36925937)
The single-grapheme emoji represented here [0] is 11 characters.

[0] https://emojipedia.org/family-man-woman-girl-boy/

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Re:Is This an Emoji? by Pannoniae on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:35PM (#36925973)
I am not sure of the correct terminology but AFAIK you should be able to limit to display characters, not unicode codepoints.
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Re:Is This an Emoji? by turnsout on Sunday July 30, 2023 @09:57AM (#36931184)
The problem is calculating the number of display characters… It’s surprisingly difficult.
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