Emoji support

[LukeTOBrien]

Hello there,

I've noticed an issue with Emoji, some Emoji are two charecters or more, upon applying lettering the characters are split and the Emoji no longer displays, instead you get the default broken charecter.
If I get time I will create an example oon codePen, but I think you get the idea.

Thanks

Luke

[davatron5000]

This is maybe tough to support because more modern emoji are actually combinations of multiple emojis but with with zero-width joiners.

// pseudo code
"👩‍🚀".split() // ["👩‍", "", "🚀"]

If you have time to make a CodePen, I can poke at it some.

[LukeTOBrien]

Could we use some fancy regex patten to avoid splitting the emoji?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47274478/how-to-exclude-escaped-characters-in-split-javascript

I will try to get some time to do this.

[LukeTOBrien]

I have created a Pen that looks promising.
If you do inspect element on the output you will see - I am using match instead of split.

Split

"Hello 🐒".split('')

Array(8) [ "H", "e", "l", "l", "o", " ", "\ud83d", "\udc12" ]

Match

"Hello 🐒".match(/(\w)|([^\u0000-\u007F]+)/g)

Array(6) [ "H", "e", "l", "l", "o", "🐒" ]

"Hello 👩•🚀".match(/(\w)|([^\u0000-\u007F]+)/g)

Array(6) [ "H", "e", "l", "l", "o", "👩‍🚀" ]

[jacopomazzoni]

hey textillate had the same issue and they had solved it before moving to .lettering this way:
jschr/textillate#94

specifically here:
rymcol/textillate@6b9f15d

any change this could be implemented in .lettering too so that textillate would support this again?

it seems like a good thing to support