On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:40:47PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > DejaVu Sans provides some emojis in B&W. In Debian, we have Noto Color > Emoji which can be used for emojis. Unfortunately, when the base font > is DejaVu Sans, the fallback doesn't happen. Fontconfig makes it > difficult to avoid using some range of a font and prefer another > font. Most hacks will add the emoji font as a fallback:
Conversely, it'd be great to have a version that has strong binding _to_ DejaVu or something else with B&W emojis. Colored ones really look out of place in a body of text -- see for example bug lists, which use U+1F310 🌐 for i10n. It was ok until firefox started shipping EmojiOneMozilla; in the same package as the browser so it can't even be simply removed. It's placed as /usr/lib/firefox/fonts/EmojiOneMozilla.ttf rather than going through fontconfig, so not sure if it's even overridable. > As an alternative, Arch Linux provides an emoji-less DejaVu Sans. This > would also work for Debian. Would it be possible to follow the same > path? > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-dejavu-emojiless/ emojiless EmojiOneMozilla would be nice. Glyphs shipped with DejaVu are consistent with the text they're in, and avoid data loss by obeying color from SGR/HTML/etc markup. Thus, it's reasonable to prefer them. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ The bill with 3 years prison for mentioning Polish concentration ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ camps is back. What about KL Warschau (operating until 1956)? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Zgoda? Łambinowice? Most ex-German KLs? If those were "soviet ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ puppets", Bereza Kartuska? Sikorski's camps in UK (thanks Brits!)?