Hello, 👋 Is there a way to identify extended grapheme clusters? 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 👍🏽 <- My use case is detecting first user perceived character in a String

can you elaborate some more

String[0] in the cases I posted return the first section of the unicode character that the emote is composed of :

val text = "👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 user perceived characters 👍🏽"
print(text[0])

?

👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 =

\u200D\uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC67\u200D\uD83D\uDC66

Android Studio does not support Zero Width Joiner characters so it look like this in the IDE:

unicode takes up more than one position in a string

Yeah, I'm asking because I did not see any clear way to achieve this in Kotlin / Java / Android (the question posted is web specific.)

Nothing is simple when dealing with emoji and I’m probably missing the point but couldn’t you loop through the codepoints and find the zero width joiners?

You are right to some extent, there are some cases where zero width joiners are not present.