Re: describe-char on emoji sequences

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>,  larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
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> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:36:49 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:13:14 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
> 
>     >> :; fc-list|grep -i emoji
>     >> /usr/local/share/fonts/DOZE10/seguiemj.ttf: Segoe UI
>     >> 
> Emoji:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
>     >> /home/cloos/.fonts/GeckoEmoji.ttf: Gecko Emoji:style=Regular
>     >> /home/cloos/.fonts/AndroidEmoji.ttf: Android Emoji:style=Regular
>     >> /usr/share/fonts/noto-emoji/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf: Noto 
> Emoji:style=Regular
> 
>     Eli> AFAIU, this means you don't have Noto Color Emoji, so Emacs picks up
>     Eli> the first matching font it finds, and that is Symbola, which doesn't
>     Eli> support Emoji sequences.
> 
>     Eli> The solution is either to install Noto Color Emoji, or to customize
>     Eli> your fontset to specify one of the above fonts you do have, assuming
>     Eli> some of them do support Emoji sequences.
> 
> If using one or the above fonts works, and itʼs a free font, then we
> could add it to the default fontset for emoji (Iʼd hazard a guess that
> anything under the 'DOZE10' directory doesnʼt fit that description)

None of these fonts is free, AFAICT.