bug#56691: outline-minor-mode displays navigation arrow buttons as emojis

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes, but is it reasonable to expect such a system?  I mean, if someone
> builds an Emacs capable of displaying color Emoji, isn't it reasonable
> to expect him/her to install a suitable font as well?  Color Emoji are
> a "hot" feature, so I'd expect that.

The problem is that Emacs is built with color Emoji support by default.
Most people do not know the necessary compile-time options to turn that
support off.

> Also, do distros come without a color Emoji font nowadays?  Because
> Symbola AFAIK needs to be installed, it isn't by default, so if a
> color Emoji font _is_ available OOTB, I think the chances for the
> problems you mention are very small, and/or are easily fixed.

Symbola comes with most systems OOTB.  I remember Firefox displaying
Emoji using that font not too long ago, on a fresh install of RHEL 7.9.