From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 44020@debbugs.gnu.org, alan@idiocy.org, rpluim@gmail.com
Subject: bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:35:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuuqfwau.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83362bshl1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:02:18 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It does -- for some value of "check". Opening a font and trying to
> find a glyph for a character is expensive, so Emacs tries to avoid
> that as much as possible. Instead, it uses less expensive "checks"
> that don't require actually opening the font. The details are
> somewhat complicated (and I'm not sure I have a sufficiently clear
> picture of them, nor that we have someone on board who does), and the
> are to some extent font-backend dependent, but they have to do with
> the character's script, the script's characters in
> script-representative-chars, and system APIs for finding fonts that
> support those. And the first problem with Emoji characters in this
> context is that their script is 'symbol', which doesn't allow us to
> assign an Emoji font to them as a script.
Ah, I see. Thank you for the explanation.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 18:10 bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 8:19 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-16 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 10:38 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-16 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 19:30 ` Alan Third
2020-10-17 6:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-17 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-18 8:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-18 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 8:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-10-17 15:27 ` Alan Third
2020-10-17 15:51 ` Alan Third
2020-10-17 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 19:11 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-16 14:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-19 10:56 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-19 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 18:34 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-19 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 19:00 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-19 19:03 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-19 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 22:00 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-20 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 7:33 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-20 8:58 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-20 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 14:41 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-19 19:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-19 19:32 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-19 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-06 19:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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