Re: Entering emojis

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  gregory@heytings.org,  Stefan Kangas
>  <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:07:49 +0200
> 
>           /* Don't use a color bitmap font unless its family is
>              explicitly specified.  */
>           if ((sym_traits & kCTFontTraitColorGlyphs) && NILP (family))
>             continue;
> 
> which I asked Yamamoto-san about last year, and the response was:
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-03/msg00520.html>
> 
> which does a good job of explaining *what* was done for the Mac port
> (which is a separate port) but not why.
> 
> Anyway, if I delete the above, Apple Color Emoji is used for emoji.

Do we have the 'emoji' script in AREF (spec, FONT_EXTRA_INDEX) in that
function, when Emacs is looking for a font to display Emoji?  If so,
we could refrain from the above condition only when a font for Emoji
is being sought, and that could be safe enough for the release branch.