emacs and special chars (emoticons)

emacs and special chars (emoticons)

[henry atting]

I can live without emoticons but what people write via jabber 
(I use emacs jabber) looks ugly with all those substitute characters.
I thought it would be a good idea to install a font which contains all
these symbols (Symbola) and make it known to emacs with
unicode-fonts.el.
This appeared to be not a good idea.
Emacs startup time increased to about 5 minutes.
All the `tweaks' like

 unicode-fonts-existence-checks (quote none)
 unicode-fonts-restrict-to-fonts (quote ("Symbola")))
 unicode-fonts-skip-font-groups (quote ...)

did help nothing.

What would be the appropriate way to make emacs display emoticons (from
Symbola font)?

Re: emacs and special chars (emoticons)

[henry atting]

> I can live without emoticons but what people write via jabber 
> (I use emacs jabber) looks ugly with all those substitute characters.
> I thought it would be a good idea to install a font which contains all
> these symbols (Symbola) and make it known to emacs with
> unicode-fonts.el.
> This appeared to be not a good idea.
> Emacs startup time increased to about 5 minutes.
> All the `tweaks' like
>
>  unicode-fonts-existence-checks (quote none)
>  unicode-fonts-restrict-to-fonts (quote ("Symbola")))
>  unicode-fonts-skip-font-groups (quote ...)
>
> did help nothing.
>
> What would be the appropriate way to make emacs display emoticons (from
> Symbola font)?


Since my emacs already knows about all fontsets I need I »solved« it
with utmost cruelty (though I can assure that no harm to animals or any
other living creature is done):
I renamed unicode-fonts.el, then stripped off everything from the new
file that will search for any other fontset than `Symbola'.
It works fine and does not perceptibly increase startup time.