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28.0.50; Most emoji sequences don’t render correctly

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Message #35 received at 39799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mike FABIAN <mfabian <at> redhat.com>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, 39799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39799: 28.0.50; Most emoji sequences don’t render correctly
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:54:53 +0200

> From: Mike FABIAN <mfabian <at> redhat.com>
> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>,  Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
>   39799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:47:40 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> さんはかきました:
> 
> >> It DTRT for me under Cairo if I change my fontset settings to use
> >> 'Noto Color Emoji' instead of Symbola for:
> >
> > Is that a free font (it's from Google, AFAIK, so it might not be)?  If
> > it is free, we could modify fontset.el to use this font if available.
> > (Or maybe there are better free Emoji fonts out there?)
> 
> “Noto Color Emoji” is free (Apache 2.0 License):
> https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/master/LICENSE
> 
> “Joypixels” is also a nice colour emoji font, but it is *not* free:
> 
> https://d1j8pt39hxlh3d.cloudfront.net/contracts/finalized-pdfs/free-5.1.pdf
> 
> (free only for personal use).

Thanks for the info.

> The nice black and white emoji font “Symbola” is unfortunately not free
> either, see:
> 
> http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/License.pdf
> 
> free for “strictly personal and non-commercial purposes”.

That's the latest version, AFAIK; older versions were free, and can
still be found on the Internet.

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