[Development] "font emojis", where are they processed?

René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 13:14:56 CET 2019


Tor Arne Vestbø wrote on 20190220::11:58:33 re: "Re: [Development] "font emojis", where are they processed?"

No problem, bouncing this back to the ML then to see if someone else picks it up.

R.

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>> On 20 Feb 2019, at 10:49, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Tor Arne Vestbø wrote on 20190219::23:55:00 re: "Re: [Development] "font emojis", where are they processed?"
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>> I meant to reply to the list but I guess this is fine too.
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>>> They are unicode points yes. The “Apple Color Emoji” font is in the fallback font list, so when the chosen font doesn’t provide the glyphs for the emoji code points the font matching algorithm will eventually pick them up from the “Apple Color Emoji” one.
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>> That would explain things indeed, also why I'm not getting the emojis under Qt4 because it appears to lack such a fallback mechanism.
>> But then how does this work when you use the freetype or fontconfig engines? And is there any reason to expect that Qt4/Mac doesn't support the full Unicode range? A difference in the embedded harfbuzz software maybe?
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>Sorry, I don’t know how fontconfig/freetype handles this. It’s also different on Windows I think.
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>Tor Arne 



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