This is great, thanks for taking the time to put this together.

One question I do have, is there a nice way to get this to work with the global regex modifier? I’m trying to replace all emojis in a string using String.replace. If I add /g on to the end of the regex it won’t match newer emojis that use ZWJ and instead breaks those down into their constituent parts e.g 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 becomes 👱👱👧👧