Re: describe-char on emoji sequences

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Copyright: Copyright 2021 James Cloos
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> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:08:30 -0400
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> >>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> LI> I'm guessing this means that you don't have an emoji font installed?  I
> LI> use Noto Color Emoji.
> 
> :; fc-list|grep -i emoji
> /usr/local/share/fonts/DOZE10/seguiemj.ttf: Segoe UI 
> Emoji:style=Regular,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta
> /home/cloos/.fonts/GeckoEmoji.ttf: Gecko Emoji:style=Regular
> /home/cloos/.fonts/AndroidEmoji.ttf: Android Emoji:style=Regular
> /usr/share/fonts/noto-emoji/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf: Noto Emoji:style=Regular

AFAIU, this means you don't have Noto Color Emoji, so Emacs picks up
the first matching font it finds, and that is Symbola, which doesn't
support Emoji sequences.

The solution is either to install Noto Color Emoji, or to customize
your fontset to specify one of the above fonts you do have, assuming
some of them do support Emoji sequences.