Subject: bug#39340: 26.3; "Noto Emoji" font not displayed

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:45:38 +0100

>>>>> On Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:22:59 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
    >> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
    >> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:03:12 +0100
    >> 
    >> font-log with the attached patch applied is below. Basically
    fontp-> driver->has_char and fontp->driver->encode_char are both
    >> failing for Ebrima when uniscribe is used. When harfbuzz is used, only
    >> has_char fails, but encode_char succeeds (see second attachment)

    Eli> has_char always fails in w32 font backends, so that's expected.
    Eli> encode_char is the problem.  Can you tell where in
    Eli> uniscribe_encode_char do we fail? does ScriptItemize fail or is it
    Eli> ScriptShape?

It looks like ScriptShape is failing.

    Eli> This could be a symptom of Microsoft deprecating Uniscribe.

Then we should deprecate it as well, no?

Robert