Emoji font in default installation?

[Elad Alfassa]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Peter Oliver <
lists.fedoraproject.org at mavit.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Matthew Miller wrote:
>
>  On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 05:02:12PM +0000, Peter Oliver wrote:
>>
>>> It seems reasonable to me that we should have a font with emoji
>>> coverage in the default Workstation installation, and I don't think
>>> there is one at the moment. We have google-noto-color-emoji-fonts in
>>> Fedora 22, however, and I'd suggest going with that instead.
>>>
>>
>> So... color? In what circumstances will that actually work?
>>
>
> As I understand it, only in the rather niche circumstance that you are
> Behdad Esfahbod and have a specially hacked-up Cairo (see
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fonts/2014-January/001663.html).
>
> The rest of us get greyscale, which looks like this:
> https://mavit.fedorapeople.org/tmp/Screenshot%20from%
> 202015-02-08%2021:30:48.png
>
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The greyscale version still looks good, and I think a proper emoji font is
something we should have by default. I do hope it'll work with color too
someday.


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-Elad Alfassa.
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