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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 15:44:00 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [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".

Is that because of the composition-function-table's entry for VS-15?
Maybe we should augment that, then?