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bug#43889: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add new smiley-style emoji to Gnus
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#43889: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add new smiley-style emoji to Gnus |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:32:23 +0300 |
> From: Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>
> Cc: 43889@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:12:32 +0200
>
> Eli writes:
>
> >> The new smiley-style called emoji takes advantage of the harfbuzz glyph
> >> rendering to represent smileys as colorful unicode emoji rather than
> >> images.
> >
> > It doesn't actually test for HarfBuzz availability, or did I miss
> > that?
>
> It doesn't - you have to choose the style yourself, by customizing the
> smiley-style variable.
How about adding that: the font-backend frame parameter should tell
you if HarfBuzz is available.
> The patch does not change the default value of smiley-style, it just
> adds yet another option for the user to choose.
My point was to help the user in this matter, by using this only if
available.
> I could have presented it better: what I was trying to say is that now
> that Emacs can present unicode emoji in colors (which I understand is
> due to harfbuzz), this option can be a useful alternative to
> representing smileys with color images, to achieve the desired effect.
Perhaps when HarfBuzz is being used, it should be the default? I
don't use Gnus, but maybe such a new default will make sense to Gnus
users?
bug#43889: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add new smiley-style emoji to Gnus, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/10