Emoji font in default installation?

Peter Oliver lists.fedoraproject.org at mavit.org.uk
Sun Feb 8 21:37:19 UTC 2015


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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Peter Oliver


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