Subject: Re: bug#63731: [PATCH] Support Emoji Variation Sequence 16 (FE0F) where appropriate

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 13:43:13 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 26 May 2023 21:05:47 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
    >> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
    >> Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 19:35:56 +0200
    >> 
    >> in this case it *is* an emoji codepoint, so it displays
    >> as emoji because of font.c, even when followed by VS-15.

    Eli> If we pass to an Emoji-capable font a sequence of a character followed
    Eli> by VS-15, I'd expect the font to produce a glyph with the textual
    Eli> representation of that character.

But we donʼt do that: we ask the font "give me a glyph for this codepoint".

Robert
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