Maybe Paul downloaded that font from https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Color+Emoji? That version of the font does not contain CBDT/CBLC *bitmap* color tables, but only COLRv1 and OT-SVG *vector* color tables.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 4:57 PM Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > > I have had great success with Google's older NotoColorEmoji.ttf and > > NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf released by Google in 2019. > > > > However they have since updated their fonts. They now have a font > > NotoColorEmoji-Regular.ttf > > They have? Looking at > > > https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf > > the most recent color emoji font (v2.038 from 2022-Sept-16) is still > called `NotoColorEmoji.ttf`. Whence did you get the font? > > > I use the code below to load 😀 0x1f600. Further below is the gdb dump > > of the glyph struct with the non-working and working font when trying > > to load the same unicode code-point. > > > > As you can see the bitmap struct is not populated. > > > > Can anyone help? > > Please have a look how `ftview` is doing this. > > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-demos/-/blob/master/src/ftview.c > > The abovementioned font from the git repository gets loaded just fine. > > > Werner >
