https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514274
--- Comment #5 from Neal Gompa <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Peter Oliver from comment #4) > (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #3) > > General question: Why is Noto part of Twemoji? My understanding is that > > these are different fonts altogether? > > See https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/9: > “The noto-emoji project is two things at the same time: > > • an open-source toolchain for converting SVG assets to TrueType with > colored emoji glyphs; > • freely licensed SVG assets for the Noto Emoji glyphs. > > After a few minor changes, our toolchain could also consume other free > assets and generate optimized fonts for Twitter Emoji and Emoji One.” > > The trouble is, this work to separate the two parts hasn’t yet been done. > Meanwhile, the Twemoji and Emoji Two projects are web-focused, producing > PNGs for use on web pages but not traditional TTF fonts. > > This is my attempt to use the Noto tooling to build Twemoji into a TTF. I’m > open to discussion about the approach. An alternative might be to modify > the existing google-noto-emoji-fonts package to distribute the tooling for > use by other packages, but, to be honest, I’m not sure exactly which files > would need to be included. > > See also this email I sent to the Fonts SIG > (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/ > thread/O6C2BFTPST4YWCOVKVLI6PBSDXQ5FF7C/), and a similar attempt for the > Emoji Two font (https://pagure.io/emojitwo-fonts). > Okay, at least this explains what's going on. > > > # Work around UTF-8 > > > export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 > > > > Please use "C.UTF-8". In Fedora, that is the generic locale that offers > > full UTF-8 support. > > I based the spec on that of google-noto-emoji-fonts, which does this too. > It wasn’t clear to me exactly what UTF-8 issue it was supposed to be working > around, so I left it in for now. I suspect the fact that C.UTF-8 is in Fedora isn't that well known. Does it work correctly when you use C.UTF-8 instead of a Chinese locale? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
