Speaking of which—sorry if this is going off-topic, but I don't know where else could I ask—I don't think there's a way to configure Linux or Android systems to always prefer text rendering for emojis, is there? (I love text emojis.)
2017-07-24 16:24 GMT+02:00 Christoph Päper via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> : > Leonardo Boiko: > > > > It would just be more > > satisfying for me if the blue books were encoded in the font as U+1F4D8s, > > rather than U+F02Ds. Or, if the colors are done at a CSS level, as 📕 > > U+1F4D5 CLOSED BOOKs or the like. Same goes for the other icons in FA > > which *do *have an emoji counterpart (which would be, I suspect, the > > majority). > > This issue has been raised long ago with the developers of such symbol > fonts: > > <https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/222> > > The reason why this is not being done is the special treatment of emoji > characters by vendors who always replace them by their custom images. Since > such fonts are mostly used on the Web platform, the solution would be a CSS > property to force `text` rendering of emojis: > > <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1144> > >
