Re: describe-char on emoji sequences

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:34:05 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
    >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:46:16 +0200
    >> 
    >> >>>>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:02:43 -0400, James Cloos 
<cloos@jhcloos.com> said:
    >> 
    >> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    EZ> The solution is either to install Noto Color Emoji, or to customize
    EZ> your fontset to specify one of the above fonts you do have, assuming
    EZ> some of them do support Emoji sequences.
    >> 
    James> Emacs really should accept Noto Emoji and not only coloured stuff.
    >> 
    >> Noto Emoji is not monochrome. It also doesnʼt have as complete
    >> coverage as Noto Color Emoji, but itʼs not too bad. I guess we could
    >> add it to the default fontset as a fallback, but nothing is stopping
    >> you from doing it locally.

    Eli> The version of Noto Emoji I have here doesn't seem to support Emoji
    Eli> sequences.  Which version of the font does?

Youʼre right, it doesnʼt. Iʼd only checked the basic emoji support
(and even there it has missing codepoints).

    Eli> If this font doesn't support sequences, I don't think we should have
    Eli> it in our default fontset.

Makes sense.

Robert
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