GNU bug report logs - #44020
28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 44020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:52:19 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:10:44 +0200
> 
> 
> If I start "emacs -Q" and load a file with this character:
> 
> 🎉
> 
> Emacs shows that as a black-and-white symbol using the Symbola font.
> 
> If I then say
> 
> (set-fontset-font t 'symbol "Noto Color Emoji")
> (set-fontset-font t 'symbol "Symbola" nil 'append)
> 
> I get a colourful party popper.
> 
> It'd be nice if this worked out of the box.

AFAIR, Robert Pluim worked on better support for Emoji display; that
needs a few more tweaks and importing one more file from the UCD, to
support Emoji sequences.  I hope this will be ready some time soon.
Robert?
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