(Will followup with an updated patch as soon as I get a bug number.) FWIW, I found out about this block after - hearing that Unicode 13.0 included new emojis, - waiting for an updated version of Symbola to be released[4], - trying to insert some of the new emojis in Emacs, - noticing that some of them (e.g. 🩴 U+1FA74, 🪗 U+1FA97, 🫕 U+1FAD5) are not displayed (C-u C-x = says "display: no font available", despite Symbola covering them). - going straight to fontset.el to understand why Symbola wasn't picked automatically. Of course, users can work around this with: (set-fontset-font t '(#x1FA70 . #x1FAFF) "Symbola" nil 'append) Thank you for your time. [1] https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/U130-1FA70.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_and_Pictographs_Extended-A [3] https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Docs/Symbola.pdf p.14 [4] https://dn-works.com/ufas/ In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 32, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-05-30 built on my-little-tumbleweed Repository revision: 780f674a82a90c4e3e32583059b498bfa57e4a06 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000 System Description: openSUSE Tumbleweed Configured using: 'configure --with-xwidgets --with-cairo' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix