Re: describe-char on emoji sequences

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:07:13 +0200
> 
> On Okt 27 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
> > I'm guessing this means that you don't have an emoji font installed?  I
> > use Noto Color Emoji.
> 
> Doesn't work either.
> 
> $ fc-match 'Noto Color Emoji' 
> NotoColorEmoji.ttf: "Noto Color Emoji" "Regular"
> 
>              position: 1 of 5 (0%), column: 0
>             character: 💂 (displayed as 💂) (codepoint 128130, #o372202, 
> #x1f482)
>               charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x1F482
>                script: emoji
>                syntax: w      which means: word
>              category: .:Base
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 1f482" or "C-x 8 RET GUARDSMAN"
>           buffer code: #xF0 #x9F #x92 #x82
>             file code: #xF0 #x9F #x92 #x82 (encoded by coding system 
> utf-8-unix)
>               display: composed to form "💂🏾‍♂️" (see below)
> 
> Composed with the following character(s) "🏾‍♂️" using this font:
>   ftcrhb:-Free-Symbola-medium-normal-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
> by these glyphs:

Very strange.  We have the default fontset explicitly request Noto
Color Emoji for these characters, so why isn't it working for you?  is
this Emacs 28 and "emacs -Q"?  If so, perhaps Noto Color Emoji is of
an old version that doesn't support some of the characters we require
for it to be considered a match for emoji?