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bug#43889: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add new smiley-style emoji to Gnus
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Robert Pluim |
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bug#43889: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add new smiley-style emoji to Gnus |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:03:53 +0200 |
(*sigh*, either gmane or bug-gnu-emacs or Gnus mangled the Reply-To
header here)
>>>>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:55:54 +0200, Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid>
>>>>> said:
Adam> Eli writes:
>>>> 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.
By looking for the substring 'hb' in it? Could we add something a
little less icky, along the lines of 'libxml-available-p'?
Adam> Do you mean removing the option if HarfBuzz isn't available?
I donʼt think this is dependent on Harfbuzz, etc/NEWS.27:
** Multicolor fonts such as "Noto Color Emoji" can be displayed on
Emacs configured with Cairo drawing and linked with cairo >= 1.16.0.
(and on macOS, if explicitly requested)
Adam> As far as I understand it, emoji can be displayed without, they just
Adam> won't have color? Which might be something that users without HarfBuzz
Adam> would like to be able to choose.
Adam> (Having color emoji is just my motivation to make the patch.)
They'd be displayed with whatever font Emacs found for them.
>> 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?
Adam> I think changing the default would be annoying to users, but I don't
Adam> have any evidence in either direction. Maybe some users would consider
Adam> it "modern" to change it.
As a Gnus user I wouldnʼt object to it being the default, as long as
there was a reasonable fallback for when those characters cannot be
displayed.
Robert
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bug#43889: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Add new smiley-style emoji to Gnus, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/10