> On Apr 17, 2022, at 2:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:09:25 -0400
>> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,
>> Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>,
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
>> 54970@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> I'm reading a lot about unicode and fontsets and trying to wrap
>> my head around it.  I can't quite answer this yet, the font to display
>> U+1F37D is Apple Color Emoji.  I get that emacs might not want
>> to enable that font by default, but emacs does use it by default to show
>> some emoji, though I don't see it listed when I do M-x describe-fontset.
> 
> The question is why didn't Emacs find that font when asked to display
> U+1F37D, and why did that produce the "blank" display instead of the
> expected tofu.
> 
>>> Okay, try with codepoints between D800 and DB7F: what does that produce?
>> 
>> I'm sorry I don't follow what you want me to do, can you be more specific?
> 
> "C-x 8 RET d800 RET" and tell what you get.



Sorry, same thing.  db7f is the same as well.

Hoawrd