On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:43:16 +0000 Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-u...@dow.land> wrote:
... > 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland > ✎ j...@debian.org > 🔗 https://jmtd.net I finally got tired of seeing tofu for some of the glyphs in your sig, so I looked up their Unicode codepoints: https://www.unicodepedia.com/unicode/miscellaneous-symbols-and-pictographs/1f471/person-with-blond-hair/ https://www.unicodepedia.com/unicode/miscellaneous-symbols-and-pictographs/1f517/link-symbol/ My MUA is Sylpheed, and it would not display those glyphs, regardless of which of my system fonts I selected as the Sylpheed display font. After some more hunting on the web, I installed "Noto Color Emoji" (fonts-noto-color-emoji), and presto, now I see the person with blond hair and the link symbol! I see them even when I don't select that font as the application display font - I guess Sylpheed, or some component of its underlying infrastructure, looks throughout the installed system fonts when there's no glyph for a particular codepoint in the currently selected font? I'm curious: do most users of Debian on the desktop (who use MUA software, as opposed to webmail via a browser) have such a font installed, or do they see tofu? Anyway, TIL something fascinating. Now that I have Noto Color Emoji installed, my email is much more colorful and cuter - Sylph apparently wasn't displaying tofu for emojis in email subject lines, and was just ignoring them, and I had no idea what I was missing ;) ... Celejar