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Hi Ed, Thank you so much for these suggestions. I've been reviewing them and merging them in. Hopefully it should be live. I've included a thank you note too in the article.

Yep, confirmed this was introduced in 1.4.0-alpha03, and only exists in that version.

Patch coming shortly.

Thank you again for the report it was incredibly helpful!

Thanks) glad I helped

Project: platform/frameworks/support
Branch: androidx-main

commit b19124e0241b9d63352714c6bc7dbfbcab962058
Author: Sean McQuillan <seanmcq@google.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 13 13:59:33 2021

    Retain android:digits in AppCompatEditText
   
    Previously, digits specified with android:digits were replaced with
    [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] during the emoji initalizer.
   
    This bug was introduced in appcompat 1.4.0-alpha03.
   
    Relnote: "Correctly retain android:digits in AppCompatEditText, this
    fixes bug 193047889 introduced in appcompat 1.4.0-alpha03."
    Test: New test, and manual testing
    Bug: b/193047889
   
    Change-Id: I4b4fc1ccc429724743cab8a965d7e3adec356fd1

M       appcompat/appcompat/src/androidTest/java/androidx/appcompat/widget/AppCompatEditTextEmojiTest.java
M       appcompat/appcompat/src/androidTest/res/layout/appcompat_edittext_emoji_activity.xml
M       appcompat/appcompat/src/main/java/androidx/appcompat/widget/AppCompatEmojiEditTextHelper.java

https://android-review.googlesource.com/1765245

Issue still persists in appcompat 1.4.0 and it works fine when I reverted the version to 1.3.1.  Tested in the following devices:
Phones : Redmi 7a(Android 10), Poco F1(Android 10) and Samsung Galaxy A71(Android 11)
Emulators :  Nexus 5X API 30

This issue is still present in appcompat:1.4.0 any solution?

This will be fixed in the next bugfix release.