GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 764796
Allow choosing skin tone for emojis that support it
Last modified: 2018-02-08 13:16:44 UTC
When choosing an emoji that supports changing the skin colour, Characters should show a drop-down that would allow choosing the skin colour, possibly remembering the skin colour for that icon, so it shows as a the "preferred" (left-most in LTR languages) emoji.
This is implemented in the Unicode layer, see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity
Created attachment 325786 [details] it kinda works
Created attachment 325787 [details] but only for some emoji
So, we probably need a function that tells us if this work for an emoji or not. Unicode calls the characters for which it works "emoji modifier base".
Here is a list of all the emoji modifier bases and their modifications: https://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/tree/pango-view/EMOJI-MODIFIERS.txt
Just to add another data point for design, it sounds similar to IVS: https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2010/02/ivs_support_the_current_status.html I guess it would be nice if there is a unified interface to browse all possible "variants" of a character.
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