On Sun Nov 28 11:38:54 2021 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 22:58:58 -0600 > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Sat 27 Nov 2021 at 07:22:45 (-0600), John Hasler wrote: >> >>> Celejar writes: >>> >>>> 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? >>> >>> I use Gnus. I've never manually installed any emoji fonts >>> (or any other fonts) but I see the glyphs, not the tofu. >> >> Questions like this remind me how little I understand font handling. >> I read mail in mutt in xterm in fvwm in X, currently in buster, and >> I see four glyphs. If I save the email in a file, then I see the > > ... > >> I wrote /four/ glyphs, but it sounds as if Celejar sees three, >> the first one being coloured with some sort of skin tone. My >> second glyph, 🏻, is a half-tone box with three lines of dots >> inside, of 3, 4 and 3 dots. > > I assume that the reason I see three and you see four is that the > first one (of my three) consists of a combination of the basic > "blond haired person" glyph plus a "light skin tone" modifier glyph, > which are presumably ideally supposed to be displayed together: > > https://emojiterra.com/blond-haired-person-light-skin-tone/ Am I the only one who sees the irony in all this? We're living in an era where the so-called "woke" generation is taking offence at every perceived slight or sign of racial or sexual discrimination, however minor. Yet these same people are eagerly leaving behind the originally all-text form of e-mail - which has no glyphs that portray such differences - in favour of graphics that are gleefully being used to highlight them. Why is nobody being "triggered" by this? -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | Apple is a cult. X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy. / \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.