Re: use-default-font-for-symbols vs. emojis

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:20:57 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > If so, could/should there be a way to distinguish "emoji" characters
> > from the more general "symbol" script, using e.g. data from
> > <https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.1/>?
> 
> If and when we need that, it will be almost trivial.  What's
> non-trivial is to add support for color emoji.

Btw, the original problem was not with emoji, it was with U+2699, for
which I see no reason to use a font different from the default, except
in exceptional cases (for which you have that variable).  Emoji are
usually displayed by specialized fonts anyway, because fonts we use
for the default face are unlikely to cover emoji.