bug#43148: 27.1; Widget text seems to disappear when building with Cairo and Xaw

[Robert Pluim]

tastytea <tastytea@tastytea.de> writes:

>> If youʼre trying to say "I want to use Noto Color Emoji for emojis",
>> then I think you should write
>> 
>> <family>emoji</family>
>
> That doesn't work, at least not in my terminal emulator.
>

You want emojis in your terminal emulator? I guess thereʼs no
accounting for taste :-)

>> not "serif" and "sans-serif", as Noto Color Emoji doesnʼt cover the
>> usual codepoints that are used for text.
>
> All the tutorials on the internet say to write it in "serif",
> "sans-serif" and "monospace". If the first font (Source Sans Pro in my
> case) doesn't cover the codepoint, the next font is used (Noto Color
> Emoji).

That surprises me, but then again this is fontconfig. Last time I
checked, Noto Color Emoji was already in the default fontconfig
settings, at least on Debian, so I wonder why you needed to have your
local settings.

Robert