Re: has the emoji support been enhanced on master?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:26:38 +0100
> 
> > And what does Emacs say for the "good" Emoji?
> 
> > In general, Unifont is the wrong font for displaying Emoji.  (IMNSHO,
> > it's the wrong font to display anything, so my suggestion is to
> > uninstall it from your system.)  Emacs is supposed to pick up a better
> > font, assuming it is installed.
> Well for ;) the winking one:
> 
> 
>              position: 5262 of 5263 (100%), column: 0
>             character: 😉 (displayed as 😉) (codepoint 128521, #o373011, 
> #x1f609)
>               charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x1F609
>                script: emoji
>                syntax: w      which means: word
>              category: .:Base
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 1f609" or "C-x 8 RET WINKING FACE"
>           buffer code: #xF0 #x9F #x98 #x89
>             file code: #xF0 #x9F #x98 #x89 (encoded by coding system 
> utf-8-unix)
>               display: by this font (glyph code):
>     
> ftcrhb:-Free-Symbola-regular-normal-semicondensed-*-21-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 
> (#x1BE8)

OK, I think I understand the problem: you don't have the Noto Color
Emoji font installed.  Install it, and the display will be according
to expectations.