If we use an input method, will I have to switch between input methods when writing french prose? Is it possible to have multiple input methods activated at the same time?

What I am used to, looks more like abbrevs:

When using Gitlab flavored markdown in a web browser, emojis are entered by pressing : (colon) then the name of the emoji as displayed on https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/, and a popup shows matching emojis when the user enters chars.

The same method applies to github, slack, etc.

Le lun. 25 oct. 2021 à 20:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> a écrit :
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:32:24 +0200
>
> Emacs can display such nice glyphs as 🏴‍☠️, 🧝🏾‍♂️ and  👨🏾‍🦰 now, but has anybody
> made a package to compose them?  Or rather -- to navigate the Emoji
> Space Of Possibilities?
>
> I don't really have any idea of what that would look like in an Emacs
> context, though.  Perhaps something with transient.el?

Rather an input method, I'd say.