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2024-06-05 06:48:46

mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧 on Nostr: If you use a "woman-facepalming" or "man-facepalming" #emoji in #Mastodon web ...

If you use a "woman-facepalming" or "man-facepalming" #emoji in #Mastodon web interface, and try to delete it via backspace, it will turn into a "person facepalming" (which for some reason is missing on both of my instances).

This is because both these emojis are a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences:
🤦‍♀️ is actually 🤦 (U+1F926) + ZWJ (U+200D) + ♀️ (U+2640 U+FE0F).
🤦‍♂️ is actually 🤦 (U+1F926) + ZWJ (U+200D) + ♂️ (U+2642 U+FE0F).

Note that U+2640 is plain ♀ ("Male Sign"), while U+2642 is plain ♂ ("Female Sign"). U+FE0F is "Variation Selector-16" which turns a "plain" #Unicode character into "emoji presentation".

You can also combine them with skin tone modifiers. Curious enough, these don't use ZWJ (I guess because they're modifiers by design);

🤦🏿 is 🤦 (U+1F926) + 🏿 (U+1F3FF, "Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-6")

https://emojipedia.org/person-facepalming
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