Bug 108978 - dejavu: add a configure option to disable emoji fonts optionally
Summary: dejavu: add a configure option to disable emoji fonts optionally
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: DejaVu
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Deja Vu bugs
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Reported: 2018-12-08 10:27 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2018-12-08 10:27 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos 2018-12-08 10:27:35 UTC
DejaVU is used by default in more linux distributions, that causes that some emojis are not shown in color (from, for example, Noto Color Emoji) and, instead, an ugly mix between the emojis in black and white from dejavu and other emojis from Noto Color to be shown in many web pages as explained at:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191976
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/136
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509988
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=908541

This has lead to even people going back to the old Bitstream Vera fonts to avoid the emojis provided by dejavu:
https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/issues/17

Even there has been some tries to provided a patched dejavu without this fonts:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ttf-dejavu-emojiless

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