FS#65557 - [ttf-joypixels] JoyPixels overwriting number glyphs

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Setpill (setpill) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 12:17 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 20 February 2020, 13:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Maxim Baz (maximbaz)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

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Description:
One some websites, some fonts are used that provide emojis or symbols, which are matched by 75-joypixels.conf and replaced with JoyPixels. However, the JoyPixels fonts contains glyphs not contained in these fonts (most commonly visible in the form of numbers), so while originally the glyph would fallback to a different font, it is now displayed in emoji form.

One clear example is on microsoft outlook webmail where one of the fonts for the login textbox is "Segoe UI Symbol". (see screenshot in attachment).
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Thursday, 20 February 2020, 13:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#63815 
Comment by Maxim Baz (maximbaz) - Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 18:17 GMT
Hi, this is a duplicate of  FS#63815 , 75-joypixels.conf is not installed in /etc/fonts/conf.d exactly for this reason - to my knowledge there is no way to make it work for everybody, so treat 75-joypixels.conf purely as an inspiration and make your own conf file that works for your specific setup. This is also reflected in the .install notice ;)

If you do have an idea on how this can be improved, please let me know, here or via email, we can play around together to see what we can do.
Comment by freswa (frederik) - Thursday, 20 February 2020, 13:06 GMT
Comment from setpill:

I see. The .install notice did not fully make me understand what might happen. That it might overrule other emoji fonts, sure, I had no problem with that. I have none installed. But that it might cause regular symbols to become replaced by emojis, that I didn't expect. In a way it's an upstream bug that an emoji font even contains glyphs for numbers... But regardless, some clarification on the .install notice might be helpful.

Would it be a solution to, `mode=delete` the non-emojione emoji fonts instead of `mode=replace` them? That way, they are simply removed from consideration and non-emoji fonts are allowed to fill the number glyphs before the fallback to JoyPixels kicks in for any unfilled emoji glyphs.

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