Subject: Re: bug#20727: 24.5; Font fallback doesn't work for the Emoji range

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:03:53 +0300

> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:47:07 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked], 
>  [email-masked]

> I tried the 8 specific characters that you mentioned (the endpoints of the 
> ranges) with emacs -Q, and found that in my environment Symbola looked way 
> better with U+1F600, U+1F64F, U+1F100 (where older Emacs just displays hex codes 
> in boxes), that Symbola looks a bit worse with U+2E00 and U+20A0 (where older 
> Emacs uses FreeSerif which better matches the FreeSerif characters elsewhere in 
> the buffer)

How did you get FreeSerif characters elsewhere in the buffer?  Which
characters were those?

> both fonts look bad (hex boxes) with U+1F1FFF, U+2E7F, U+20CF (as
> they're unassigned).

Sorry, I mentioned the block limits without checking what parts are
assigned.  (Also, U+1F1FFF was a typo.)  What do you see for U+2E3F
and U+20BD?

Anyway, does the idea of selectively removing codepoints from where we
currently specify Symbola sound good, given these trials?