Re: Emoji with CoreText

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us>]

Behdad,

OK, thanks.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On May 22, 2018, at 4:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> I don't know how the CoreText backends in Pango / Cairo work. Cannot help I'm afraid :(.
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:01 PM, John Ralls <jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> wrote:
> Behdad,
>
> Even with gtk-3.22.30, cairo-1.15.12, and pango 1.40.12 I'm not able to get most emoji (and not just the 
> color ones) to display in GtkEntry or even in the Gtk emoji picker. I've tried setting font-family: Apple 
> Color Emoji in gtk.css. Does the pango CoreText backend need some work to support this? How about flipping 
> the font family to Apple Color Emoji to display the emoji block of code points if a different family is 
> used for the "regular" text?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
>
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