Re: emojis not colored

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:53:12 +0000, Colin Baxter 😺 <m43cap@yandex.com> 
>>>>> said:
    Colin> Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for 
Contributors.
    Colin>  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
    Colin>  with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please 
read LICENSE.
    Colin>  Based on sources from 20170812-ML-D.
    Colin>  Based on source from git with hash: 
    Colin> Attempt to unget two characters
    Colin> CHECKING     NotoColorEmoji.ttf
    Colin> This font contains neither "CFF " nor "glyf"/"loca" tables
    Colin> The following table(s) in the font have been ignored by FontForge
    Colin>   Ignoring 'CBDT'
    Colin>   Ignoring 'CBLC'
    Colin> No (useable) bitmap strikes in this TTF font: 
/home/redknight/.fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
    Colin> Couldn't find a font file named 
/home/redknight/.fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
    Colin> NotoColorEmoji.ttf is not in a known format (or uses features of 
that format fontforge does not support, or is so badly corrupted as to be 
unreadable)
    Colin> Open: Failed to open: NotoColorEmoji.ttf


    Colin> Possibly my Debian version is too old.

I get the same on my working NotoColorEmoji.ttf, so I suspect that
fontlint just doesnʼt understand colour fonts (the "CB" in "CBDT" and
"CBLC" stands for "colour bitmap")

Robert
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