Re: landing harfbuzz branch (Re: Status of multicolor fonts?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 18:59:26 +0900
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> The attached patch is against the harfbuzz branch, and it adds
> `xfthb' and `ftcrhb' backends that use HarfBuzz for shaping.  I
> also tried adding the `mac-cthb' backend, but it is not included
> in the patch.

Thanks!  Please push to the harfbuzz branch, I'd like people to try
this and report feedback.

The branch will need some documentation updates before it will be
ready to land on master.

> With the `ftcrhb' font backend, one can now display regional flag
> emojis:

What would we need to be able to display those emojis in the xfthb
backend?