From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 44020@debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#44020: 28.0.50; Prefer selection of colour emoji fonts?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:11:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zh4ic9pt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835z79uzab.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:44:44 +0300")
>>>>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:44:44 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:30:41 +0100
>> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 44020@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:38:18PM +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
>> > >>>>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:26:42 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> >
>> > Eli> Also, Noto Color Emoji has a free license, so it's okay for it to be
>> > Eli> in fontset.el, but it is not clear to me whether Apple Color Emoji is
>> > Eli> distributed under a free license.
>> >
>> > Itʼs marked 'Copyright Apple 2011-2016' in the macOS font
>> > selector. And Apple appear to be both sensitive and litigious about
>> > it, so probably best not to promote it.
>>
>> On the other hand it comes preinstalled, it only works on Apple
>> devices, and Noto Color Emoji doesn't work on Apple devices. I'm not
>> sure we'd really be "promoting" it.
>>
>> IIRC Windows comes with Segoe UI Emoji preinstalled too.
Eli> Both are true, but AFAIK our policy until now was not to mention such
Eli> fonts in fontset.el.
Eli> Emoji is just one example, btw. At least for MS-Windows, the latest
Eli> versions come with many good fonts that cover most of the scripts. So
Eli> if the restriction to avoid mentioning proprietary fonts in fontset.el
Eli> could be lifted, we could produce a very capable and complete fontset
Eli> for MS-Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if the same situation didn't
Eli> exist on macOS. Not sure how things are on GNU/Linux, and what are
Eli> the differences between the distros in this respect.
Another thing that could be useful on GNU/Linux is to take advantage
of the fact that most of them go out of their way to define
pseudo-families for particular uses, such as 'emoji' or 'math', which
then automatically adjust to the fonts installed on the system:
$ fc-match 'emoji'
NotoColorEmoji.ttf: "Noto Color Emoji" "Regular"
:~
If I were to uninstall Noto Color Emoji, the same command would now
return "Emoji One"
Robert
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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
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 [this message]
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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