Re: emoji modifier support

[Werner LEMBERG]

> We would like to implement the colored font feature of freetype to
> manage colored emoji.
> 
> We already have a POC with colored emoji, but we have seen that some
> of the glyph in our font (Segoe UI Emoji) are associated with a skin
> tone modifier base on Fitzpatrick scale.
> 
> We don't really know how to manage this.
> 
> Is this something managed by the freetype library?

I'm not an expert, but as far as I know this has to be handled at a
higher level by using Emoji ZWJ Sequences.

  https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-zwj-sequences.html

Dominik, can you give more information?


    Werner