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The issue here isn't ASCII vs unicode, it's specifically symbols that are composed of multiple unicode codepoints.



(Which btw isn't exclusive to emojis, there's also Hangul Jamo that the Unicode standard says is used for "archaic" Korean characters, but emojis are probably the main use case.)




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