Re: Unicode 15

[Peter Oliver]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> >
> > Also, the latest noto emoji[1] is in a new format named COLRv1 which I guess is 
> > not yet supported by
> > emacs therefore all of the emojis are appearing as blank, so we should support 
> > that in the future.
> > in the meantime do you know of any other font which supports the newest emojis 
> > so that emoji support could
> > be
> > tested?

A CBDT version of Noto Color Emoji version 2.038 has now been pushed to 
https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/tree/main/fonts/.

> As for COLRv1, I think it's HarfBuzz and/or Cairo that need to support
> that, no?

I think there’s more to it than that, since COLR v0 fonts don’t work for me in 
Emacs either (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43058), but do work 
in other programs.

--
Peter Oliver