Emoji font in default installation?

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Top posting: Just to update on this.
We have recently added subpackage google-noto-color-emoji-fonts
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=5877202>  [1] from google
noto fonts project.

1. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=5877202

On 11 February 2015 at 03:08, Peter Oliver <
lists.fedoraproject.org at mavit.org.uk> wrote:

> On 10 February 2015 at 14:31, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> > Not to mention that to be actually useful, color support must exist on
> > both sides of the conversation (and the Google solution is not the only
> > one one the market).
>
> Sure, this is Google's attempt at encoding colour into fonts, but the
> characters themselves are ordinary Unicode characters, so
> interoperability between IM participants doesn't seem to be a
> particular problem, to me.  Emoji look different from phone to phone
> and from website to website, but people mostly seem to cope fine with
> that.
>
> > Probably too early to set it as defaut, at best as a
> > dep of the first Fedora IM client that can make use of it. And then
> remove
> > the dep when it's no longer experimental-ish
>
> Let's not get hung up on the fact that the font I suggested happens to
> encode colour.  I can receive emoji IMs today via Gnome Shell's
> notifications.
>
> I guess the questions I'm asking are: are emoji now sufficiently
> common that we should include by default a font that can display them?
>  If yes, what is the most suitable font for that?
>
> --
> Peter Oliver
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