If you’re like me, you detest all these modern emojis. Look at this: What’s up with that!? How am I supposed to express myself when machines insert themselves between me and people I’m communicating with?
Fortunately, we live in the 21th century. Observe and be amazed… :)
Ain’t it pretty? :)
How did I do that? To anwer that question, let’s look at the actual binary representation of the emoji:
00000000: 3aef bbbf 29 :...)
See what I did there? I added the Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (in UTF-8 encoding), thereby ruining the binary representation of the emoji - making it impossible for the machine to find it - while at the same time not interfering with the rendering of the emoji. xD
Now I just need to figure out a friendly UI for this, because I currently need to use xxd to output the no-break space into xterm and then copy-paste that here and edit the mouth… :/
EDIT: I should probably use U+2060 WORD JOINER instead. :/ UTF-8 encoding is e281a0. Ah, but I can’t! The machine recognizes the pattern and replaces it. >:(
That’s probably specific to the operating system (FreeBSD) and desktop environment (none). Let’s give it a try: (…) nope. Doesn’t work on my browser (Qutebrowser) with that OS and DE.
I think I’ll put it into a txt file and copy-paste from there. It won’t be as seamless but should be fast enough. Orr… I’ll add a macro to my browser that adds that character. =_= I need to research that.
Yes, it’s probably something of this sort. Qutebrowser is using Qt, but Qt is a big beast and it’s perfectly plausible this specific feature needs to be turned on by some code, and it just isn’t turned on in Qutebrowser. My system is spartan. xD
What’s up with that!? How am I supposed to express myself when machines insert themselves between me and people I’m communicating with?