Re: emacs-27 60c84ad: ; * etc/TODO: Fix last change.

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:12:04 -0700, chad <address@hidden> said:

    chad> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 8:33 AM Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:
    >> So this was a combination of me forgetting to add 'emoji' into the
    >> list of 'simple' scripts in fontset.el, and the following code in
    >> macfont.m:
    >> 
    >> /* Don't use a color bitmap font unless its family is
    >> explicitly specified.  */
    >> if ((sym_traits & kCTFontTraitColorGlyphs) && NILP (family))
    >> continue;
    >> 
    >> Yamamoto-san, Iʼm not sure I understand the rationale for excluding
    >> colour fonts unless explicitly requested, could you elaborate?
    >> 

    chad> I moved away from macOS several months ago, but if memory serves, 
this was
    chad> (at the time) a feature that only worked on non-free OSs, and a 
request was
    chad> made (from Richard, if memory serves twice) to limit the feature 
until it
    chad> could be adequately supported on free/libre systems.

Thatʼs true, and up until a while ago the feature was completely
disabled. Now itʼs just disabled unless you specifically request
'Apple Color Emoji' or similar, which in this case weʼre not.

Robert