Re: Entering emojis

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> And indeed, for that set of code points, internal-char-font and
> font-get-glyphs take almost exactly the same time, which is very odd.

Or perhaps not!  That function does quite a lot of work both when it
gets a match and not (allocating vectors and stuff).

As a test, I made it return t/nil if fed a character:

diff --git a/src/font.c b/src/font.c
index 5e761abc5e..3b0309088b 100644
--- a/src/font.c
+++ b/src/font.c
@@ -5067,6 +5067,14 @@ DEFUN ("font-get-glyphs", Ffont_get_glyphs, 
Sfont_get_glyphs, 3, 4, 0,
        }
       chars = aref_addr (object, ifrom);
     }
+  else if (INTEGERP (object))
+    {
+      int c = XFIXNAT (object);
+      if (font->driver->encode_char (font, c) == FONT_INVALID_CODE)
+       return Qnil;
+      else
+       return Qt;
+    }
   else
     wrong_type_argument (Qarrayp, object);
 
And that made it really, really fast -- like 100x faster in the test
case.  :-)

Should I fix this up and document it?  It's perhaps not an ideal
interface...

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