Re: master 94380420e2: Support Noto Emoji font as fallback

[समीर सिंह Sameer Singh]

Although I think for general enough usage they are fine.

If the user wants they can explicitly change them.

Their goal is "no more tofus" and I think they are achieving that.

Current noto fonts coverage: https://notofonts.github.io/overview/

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 6:03 PM समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com> wrote:

Some issues of the noto fonts which I remember are:

Bengali: No "knots" in the Sans font, though serif fonts have them. [1]

Tirhuta: No "knots" here too at all since it does not have a serif version. [1]

Sharada: Wrong glyph used for the Vowel A. [2]

Brahmi: Does not support all conjuncts. [3]

[1]: https://github.com/notofonts/bengali/issues/2

[2]: https://twitter.com/a_srinidhi/status/1529752633283469313

[3]: https://github.com/notofonts/brahmi/issues/1

There should be more issues still.

Also maybe I should restart adding new script support to Emacs.

Thanks

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 4:25 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:55:01 +0200
>
> Nice. On a related note, 'Noto Sans <script>' is fairly commonly
> available for codepoints in <script>, perhaps we should add those as
> fallbacks as well? (the version I have here has support for 169
> different scripts)

I'm not sure.  We should at least figure out how wide-spread those
fonts are, and whether people really prefer them better than what
their systems provide OOTB.  FWIW, the visual appearance of the Google
Noto fonts is not always appealing to me.  But the above could at
least be a good idea for historic scripts that are not used in
contemporary live cultures.