Dear maintainers, With a recent build of Emacs and harfbuzz version 5.2.0 all the complex emoji have extra spacing after them. This space is present everywhere the affected emoji is displayed. One example is the interface of the command 'emoji-search'. Steps to reproduce the attached screenshot on 'emacs -Q': - Type 'C-x 8 e s' - Type "face" and then TAB twice to bring up the Completions' buffer. All the best, Protesilaos (or simply "Prot") * * * In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-09-21 built on kronos Repository revision: 1231a601ebe1fd9fe454c504dbeb9267440242e7 Repository branch: makepkg System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-gameuser=:games --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --without-gconf --with-native-compilation --with-pgtk --with-sound=no --without-gpm --without-compress-install '--program-transform-name=s/\([ec]tags\)/\1.emacs/' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP XIM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix -- Protesilaos Stavrou https://protesilaos.com