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[art] Re: use of Emojis in Internet Standards

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Tue, 10 March 2026 22:37 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:37:47 -0700
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> >
> https://github.com/sayrer/twitter-text/blob/main/rust/parser/src/twitter_text_full_tld.pest
> >
> >where every single emoji in Unicode 17 is described by hand.
>
> Great, but since that seems to be part of a general parser of tweets
> (which last I looked are mostly arbitrary text)
>

This is the one point we must disagree on. Tweets are free text that
contain identifiers (usernames, hashtags, etc).

That's why the parser is brutal. I'd encourage anyone interested in this
topic to read mine, and feel free to improve on it.

thanks,
Rob

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