On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 22:58:58 -0600 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 27 Nov 2021 at 07:22:45 (-0600), John Hasler wrote: > > Celejar writes: > > > I'm curious: do most users of Debian on the desktop (who use MUA > > > software, as opposed to webmail via a browser) have such a font > > > installed, or do they see tofu? > > > > I use Gnus. I've never manually installed any emoji fonts (or any other > > fonts) but I see the glyphs, not the tofu. > > Questions like this remind me how little I understand font handling. > I read mail in mutt in xterm in fvwm in X, currently in buster, and > I see four glyphs. If I save the email in a file, then I see the ... > I wrote /four/ glyphs, but it sounds as if Celejar sees three, > the first one being coloured with some sort of skin tone. My > second glyph, 🏻, is a half-tone box with three lines of dots > inside, of 3, 4 and 3 dots. I assume that the reason I see three and you see four is that the first one (of my three) consists of a combination of the basic "blond haired person" glyph plus a "light skin tone" modifier glyph, which are presumably ideally supposed to be displayed together: https://emojiterra.com/blond-haired-person-light-skin-tone/ Celejar