Re: Ligature support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 23:51:50 -0500
> 
>   > This package (and it's helpers) adds a bunch of icons to emacs in various
>   > contexts (mode-line, dired, completions, etc.). It gets those icons from
>   > several fonts (currently: the file icons from the Atom editor, the
>   > FontAwesome icons, the GitHub "Octicons", Google's Material Design icons,
>   > and a set of weather icons maintained by a group on github).
> 
> 1. Are all these fonts free, without exceptions?
> 
> 2. How many fonts are involved?
> 
> 3. Is it any practical problem to use that many fonts?
> Would there be an advantage to repacking the icons that are useful in Emacs
> into one font?  Do the licenses of these fonts permit that?

Just to make sure we all are on the same page: the above is a tangent
that has no direct relation to the ligature support, the original
subject of this thread.