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FS#65425 - [discord] Unicode Emoji

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Ömer Akgöz (omerakgoz34) - Saturday, 08 February 2020, 17:31 GMT
Last edited by Filipe Laíns (FFY00) - Sunday, 09 February 2020, 01:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Filipe Laíns (FFY00)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

"noto-fonts-emoji" package must be package dependency for Unicode Emoji support.

e.g. Unicode emojis on channel names.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Filipe Laíns (FFY00)
Sunday, 09 February 2020, 01:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 09 February 2020, 01:41 GMT
You also need a unicode font for any other software which happens to display emoji anywhere. Is there a reason you'd explicitly need the ones provided in noto-fonts?

Why should people who use discord, but not with emoji, be required to install a highly specific font? Should Firefox have a dependency on an emoji font, because some websites display emoji? Pardon my ignorance, but does Discord actually bake emoji into the interface anywhere, or is it *just* for (common) user-supplied input?

Regardless of anything else, we should be steering people to the virtual package "emoji-font", which allows the user to choose their preferred font, similar to how ttf-font allows the user to pick their preferred TTF-compatible font rather than forcing any specific font upon people.

If anything, maybe this should be an *optional* dependency. I'll leave it up to the maintainer to decide whether to do that at all, since I have no clue. :/
Comment by Filipe Laíns (FFY00) - Sunday, 09 February 2020, 01:47 GMT
Well, I don't think it should be anything at all. We are not going to make every app that shows dynamic text depend on all possible font types. What is the difference between emoji and Chinese characters here?

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