From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, maiku.fabian@gmail.com, 15420@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15420: 24.3; Symbols like 🚴 (U+1F6B4) are not displayed by default
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:40:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wofephd2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgq2h2w4.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:19:55 +0200)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian@gmail.com>, larsi@gnus.org,
> 15420@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:19:55 +0200
>
> > You will see in lisp/international/fontset.el that the #x1F680 --
> > #x1F6FF block is now configured to use Symbola by default, which is
> > why the BICYCLE and BICYCLIST are displayed without any changes. As
> > for the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, we don't do anything about them,
>
> Is this for technical reasons (e.g. redisplay speed) or a policy
> decision such as not enough free fonts? I ask because e.g. Firefox
> seems to automatically find an installed font; for example, on my system
> Firefox displays the hieroglyphs on
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_block)>,
> presumably using the Aegyptus fonts installed in my system, while EWW
> does not display the hieroglyphs (but does e.g. display the emoticons on
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_(Unicode_block)>, some using
> DejaVu, some using Symbola).
Firefox has a long list of known fonts stored in its database out of
the box. We don't for 2 reasons: (1) we don't want to reference
non-free fonts, and (2) we want to be able to support the use case of
installing a font while the session runs.
The above may or may not be relevant to the Egyptian Hieroglyphs case;
volunteers are welcome to step through the font lookup process in
Emacs in that case and see whether we should add something to our
fontset-related databases. After all, this script is quite rare, and
was added to Unicode at a relatively late date, so something might be
amiss.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 13:58 bug#15420: 24.3; Symbols like 🚴 (U+1F6B4) are not displayed by default Mike FABIAN
2019-08-15 3:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 9:01 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-15 9:25 ` Mike FABIAN
2019-08-15 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-15 15:19 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-15 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-17 13:50 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 14:56 ` Stephen Berman
2019-08-17 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 13:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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