It's not a general open-source problem, it's a Gtk Quartz problem. There's a similar issue on Gramps having to do with certain symbols used by some genealogists to indicate characteristics or relationship types, e.g. ⚭ for marriage or ⚰︎ for death. That's why I already knew about the details of the problem.
Regards, John Ralls > On Jun 25, 2020, at 3:25 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is it possible that developers in some other open source project may have > been faced with a similar problem, or are you so far ahead of them that > they are all waiting to see what you do? > > David Carlson > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 3:24 AM Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Adrian, maybe for a start one could just try and see if you can paste those >> unicodes or some other into the notes/memo fields, that is how I started >> and when it worked I thought about using them. >> >> Regards, >> Bob >> >> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 02:10, Adrien Monteleone < >> adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >> >>> I’d be happy to play with the CSS, but I don’t see a way to target that >>> cell. All I get are the sheet and the entry cell. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adrien >>> >>>> On Jun 24, 2020 w26d176, at 8:05 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Font handling in Gtk on MacOS is weird: Pango only calculates the >> layout >>> for computing box sizes. The actual glyph selection and layout is handled >>> by Cairo, and I don't think it knows how to use CoreText's font >>> substitution. WebKitGtk complicates matters by requiring the FreeType2 >>> Pango backend as well and that does its own font substitution. >> Regardless, >>> pango is finding the emojis so the test passes. Cairo isn't putting a >>> missing glyph glyph there like I'd expect. I haven't yet figured out why >>> not. >>>> >>>> I can think of two avenues to try: Simply forcing have_glyphs to false >>> on MacOS would display the regular letters. Not as pretty but it's sure >> to >>> work. A bit more difficult and in need of testing would be to use CSS to >>> set the font family for the Association cell to Apple Color Emojis on >> MacOS. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
