Re: Emoji on Mac OS X

[Jiajie Chen]

Alex Dunn <address@hidden> writes:
> Odd, emoji display fine for me on OS X with:
> GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0, NS appkit-1404.47 Version 
> 10.11.5 (Build 15F34))
>
> Does it make a difference if it’s build --with-ns?
>
> David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Toon,
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Toon Claes <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been using emacs 25.0.91 for a while.
>>> To have emoji in emacs on OS X, I am using this line in my init file:
>>>
>>> (set-fontset-font t 'symbol (font-spec :family "Apple Color Emoji") nil 
>>> ‘prepend)
>>
>> Support for multi-color font is provided by the system, but is being 
>> actively prevented by code in Emacs for political reasons.
>>
>> It is still enabled in the Aquamacs distribution.   Yamamoto’s Mac port 
>> should have it, too.
>> Alternatively, you can build Emacs yourself without the anti-multi-color 
>> font change if you undo the change 😺:
>>
>> git revert 9344612d3cd164317170b6189ec43175757e4231

By the way, I wonder when will multi-color font be supported on Linux?
At that time the multi-color font will be re-enabled in NS port.

commit 9344612d3cd164317170b6189ec43175757e4231
Author: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Apr 12 08:26:51 2016 +0900

    Disable multicolor fonts on OS X since they are not supported on free 
systems

    * src/macfont.m (macfont_list): Don't use color bitmap fonts.