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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#20727: 24.5; Font fallback doesn't work for the Emoji range |
Date: | Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:47:07 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I think you are judging by characters that are sufficiently well covered. Try Emoji (something in the range U+1F600 to U+1F64F), which was the trigger for this bug and my changes, or Enclosed Alphanumerics (U+1F100 to U+1F1FFF), for example. Or even Supplemental Punctuation (u+2E00 to u+2E7F) or Currency Symbols (u+20A0 to u+20CF). What I see on my system is that several fonts claim coverage, but typically support just a few characters, sometimes just one. That's the problem I was trying to avoid.
I tried the 8 specific characters that you mentioned (the endpoints of the ranges) with emacs -Q, and found that in my environment Symbola looked way better with U+1F600, U+1F64F, U+1F100 (where older Emacs just displays hex codes in boxes), that Symbola looks a bit worse with U+2E00 and U+20A0 (where older Emacs uses FreeSerif which better matches the FreeSerif characters elsewhere in the buffer), and that both fonts look bad (hex boxes) with U+1F1FFF, U+2E7F, U+20CF (as they're unassigned).
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