Comment by 🍵 michaelnordmeyer

Re: "New emojis in Noto Emoji fontpack?"

In: s/Lagrange

Using Noto Emoji broke at least RTL rendering in Lagrange:

— bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange-Issues/16

🍵 michaelnordmeyer

Jan 27 · 4 months ago

3 Later Comments ↓

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · Jan 27 at 08:59:

Note that Noto Emoji is always bundled with Lagrange. That issue was with the separately installed fontpack.

🍵 michaelnordmeyer · Jan 27 at 19:30:

@skyjake It was installed from gemini://skyjake.fi/fonts/noto/. Is there a difference between the bundled and the download one? I installed it because the default Lagrange emoji are limited and especially don't support male/female/person variants.

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · Jan 29 at 06:22:

@michaelnordmeyer When it comes to the gender variants, I'm not sure if Lagrange can render them. HarfBuzz should be able to select the right glyphs based on the ZWJ code points, but it might be hindered by the lower-level TrueType library I'm using.

The configuration with Noto Emoji specifically is more complicated than you might think. Lagrange actually bundles BOTH an older and a newer version of it. The newer bundled one is used as a fallback if the old one does not have some glyph (because I prefer the look of the old version). If you install the Noto Emoji fontpack from the library, then you have three copies of Noto Emoji available.

At that point, the fontpack priority values determine which instance of the font is used for a particular glyph. The fontpack from the library has a lower priority than the old bundled Noto Emoji, but higher than the newer bundled one. So: installing the fontpack from the library overrides only the newer bundled Noto Emoji, and the old copy still has the highest priority.

In other words, installing the Noto Emoji from the library should only give you additional glyphs that are missing from the bundled old font.

If this sounds complicated, yeah it is, and I'm not surprised it's causing some unexpected behavior.

Original Post

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