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bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts? |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:49:46 +0300 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 44020@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:38:18 +0200
>
> >> 1. Deciding what fonts we should use for emoji. We can get a lot of
> >> good results by adding appropriate 'set-fontset-font' calls to
> >> emacs, independently of any other work (I also wonder if we should
> >> change the default of use-default-font-for-symbols, given the
> >> proliferation of both emoji and fonts dedicated to displaying them)
> >>
> >> 2. Extract the emoji sequences from the Unicode data files and assign
> >> them to a new 'emoji' script. Be prepared to choose your favourite
> >> bikeshed colour.
> >>
> >> 3. Add the appropriate entries to composition-function-table so that
> >> the various multi-codepoint emoji sequences have a chance to be
> >> rendered correctly, whether by HarfBuzz or the Apple thing whose
> >> name I forget.
> >>
> >> For [1], I think "Noto Color Emoji" and "Apple Color Emoji" would be a
> >> good start.
>
> Eli> I agree, but [1] depends on [2], because set-fontset-font needs to
> Eli> know the script.
>
> set-fontset-font with a TARGET covering the emoji codepoints in
> question, I meant. Youʼre right itʼs probably cleaner to do both at
> the same time.
Yes, because using the codepoints will mean more maintenance in the
future, as more Emoji blocks are added (and they will be, quite
certainly).
>
> Eli> Also, Noto Color Emoji has a free license, so it's okay for it to be
> Eli> in fontset.el, but it is not clear to me whether Apple Color Emoji is
> Eli> distributed under a free license.
>
> Itʼs marked 'Copyright Apple 2011-2016' in the macOS font
> selector. And Apple appear to be both sensitive and litigious about
> it, so probably best not to promote it.
Right. People will have to do that on their own, if they don't want
to install a free font.
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/15
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Robert Pluim, 2020/10/16
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/16
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Robert Pluim, 2020/10/16
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Alan Third, 2020/10/16
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/17
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/17
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/18
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/18
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/19
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Alan Third, 2020/10/17
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Alan Third, 2020/10/17
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/17
- bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?, Robert Pluim, 2020/10/19