Yeah, the "Bad #2" example, how Chrome does it, makes perfect sense and seems correct to me. Modifiers get removed when the character they're modifying is removed. I would say leaving the modifier and applying it to the previous character would be certainly incorrect (unless you're in a hex editor, in which case combining the bytes as emoji at all is questionable). Imagine it were two different emojis and a skin color modifier after the last one (and somehow, through a rendering bug, the skin color modifier hadn't auto-combined) - OP's precedent for what happens when deleting the middle emoji would move the modifier to the first emoji! Clearly wrong, especially if it then decides to auto-combine.
I mean, the example is pretty contrived in the first place:
> Whoops, I didn't mean to put the a there.
How in the world are you typing emoji such that you have to add the skin color modifier separately that would even afford an opportunity for an errant character to get inserted between? Windows numpad alt codes?
I mean, the example is pretty contrived in the first place:
> Whoops, I didn't mean to put the a there.
How in the world are you typing emoji such that you have to add the skin color modifier separately that would even afford an opportunity for an errant character to get inserted between? Windows numpad alt codes?