Re: Entering emojis

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Debian also has a fonts-ancient-scripts package, which contains the 
> > Aegyptus font, which also has a glyph for each egyptian hieroglyph.  A 
> > more recent version of that font (but apparently with a more 
> > restrictive licence) can be seen here: 
> > https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Docs/Aegyptus.pdf and 
> > downloaded here: 
> > https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Fonts/Aegyptus.zip .
>
> I know about these fonts.  I tried to explain in a followup message that 
> there's more about this script than just a glyph for each codepoint: the 
> layout of the glyphs in readable text is unusual, and requires 
> horizontal and vertical offsets under control of special formatting 
> characters specific to this script.  AFAIK, no existing font that is 
> distributed, let alone distributed freely, supports that yet.

Unless I misunderstand what you mean, page 4 and 5 of the above PDF 
describes such special formattings in which multiple glyphs are combined, 
and they are supported by the Aegyptus font.