Re: has the emoji support been enhanced on master?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:06:01 +0100
> 
> > What does Emacs say when you go to the Emoji and type "C-u C-x =" ?
> 
> That emoji is displayed as 3 chars in my buffer, 
> 
> The first is
>              position: 245 of 260 (94%), column: 0
>             character: 🤷 (displayed as 🤷) (codepoint 129335, #o374467, 
> #x1f937)
>               charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x1F937
>                script: emoji
>                syntax: w      which means: word
>              category: .:Base
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 1f937" or "C-x 8 RET SHRUG"
>           buffer code: #xF0 #x9F #xA4 #xB7
>             file code: #xF0 #x9F #xA4 #xB7 (encoded by coding system 
> utf-8-unix)
>               display: by this font (glyph code):
>     ftcrhb:-PfEd-Unifont Upper-medium-normal-normal-*-21-*-*-*-d-0-iso10646-1 
> (#x21E3)

And what does Emacs say for the "good" Emoji?

In general, Unifont is the wrong font for displaying Emoji.  (IMNSHO,
it's the wrong font to display anything, so my suggestion is to
uninstall it from your system.)  Emacs is supposed to pick up a better
font, assuming it is installed.