Re: Emacs Mac port

[Clément Pit--Claudel]

On 12/29/2015 06:14 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> Could someone explain to me, first, what these features do?
> 
> * Emoji display, with support of variation sequences (text-style vs.
> emoji-style) and modifiers (skin tones) if the font supports them.
> 
> Emojis (like graphical smileys) can support more styling.

That's not exactly it: it means support for a different set of fonts, whose 
glyphs are multi-color pictures instead of monochrome shapes.

I asked about this feature two weeks ago, and got many replies (most of them 
lukewarm). I think Richard and you also replied:

  > On 12/17/2015 06:25 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
  >>>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
  >>> I suggest that we give low priority to this feature. If someone wants to
  >>> implement it and does a good job, we can accept it, but otherwise we don't
  >>> care.
  >>
  >> Agreed.

> Not sure if the typography library on GNU/Linux makes this
> information available yet or not.

Freetype has supported it since 2012. Emacs' has a direct interface to 
Freetype, but it seems to essentially be dead code. libXft doesn't expose 
Freetype's support for this feature, and I didn't get a reply from the devs on 
their mailing list about this. Cairo doesn't expose Freetype's support either, 
though Mozilla implemented support for it in their own branch. All in all it 
seems that it will be some time before GNU/Linux users get access to this 
feature.

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