Re: Color emojis on Win10?

[Arash Esbati]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
>> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:53:26 +0100
>> 
>> I'm using a recent build (41b1fa05c7) from master on Win10 and have the
>> following snippet in my init file for emojis:
>> 
>>     (set-fontset-font t 'emoji
>>                       (font-spec :family   "Segoe UI Emoji"
>>                                  :registry "iso10646-1"
>>                                  :size     9.3)
>>                       nil 'prepend)
>> 
>> Is it possible to get color emojis with Segoe UI Emoji?
>
> It isn't currently possible to get color Emoji on MS-Windows.  Color
> fonts are not supported there.  Patches to add that are welcome.

Thanks.  I can't fix the issue, but I can provide a patch documenting
the current state, say for NEWS in emacs-28.  I'm not sure if "No color
fonts on MS-Windows" is mentioned somewhere.

Best, Arash