GNU bug report logs - #54970
28.1; Some emoji no longer display

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

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Message #86 received at 54970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 54970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, hmelman <at> gmail.com, alan <at> idiocy.org
Subject: Re: bug#54970: 28.1; Some emoji no longer display
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:36:17 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>,  Alan
>  Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>,  54970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 20:27:41 +0200
> 
> I haven't been following this thread closely, but has somebody mentioned
> that some characters have both a symbol and an emoji expression?  My
> guess is that Apple, by default, displays characters like 🍽
> "fork and knife with plate" using the emoji expression.  So it has a
> font with a definition with the non-emoji expression which is just
> blank.

That's what I thought, but "C-u C-x =" says "no font was found", which
AFAIU contradicts this theory.
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