Hi! With emoji becoming some sort of official fontconfig feature, I decided it's time to reduce the amount of hacks in my setup. And I was hoping that updating to the latest fontconfig git master would mean not requiring the custom configs I wrote. Unfortunately, it made things worse. Some context before I go on with the actual issue: I wrote this libxft patch a couple of years ago, adding colored glyph support: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/57462/ It didn't get any attention, probably because no one maintains libxft, and I didn't advertise it much so I'm probably the only user of that patch. Its biggest problem is those fonts have bitmap glyphs so big they result in X errors sometimes, and I've been using a manually scaled version of Noto Color Emoji since then. The other issue with the patch is that it doesn't do anything to prefer colored glyphs - I could use some advice there, if there's something libxft could do (like pango and/or cairo seem to do now). But I've been doing this: <selectfont> <rejectfont> <glob>/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Symbola.ttf</glob> </rejectfont> </selectfont> <match> <test name="prgname" compare="eq" qual="any"> <string>[...]</string> </test> <edit mode="prepend" name="family"> <string>Noto Color Emoji</string> </edit> </match> Not pretty but it gets the job done. It sucks to need the global rejectfont, since it affects non-libxft applications, but I couldn't find a better way. I would also appreciate advice here. Anyway, that works up to fontconfig 2.12.4. I installed git master, "2.12.4-29-g92da67a", and: - the rejectfont is no longer needed (neat!) - the prepend of Noto Color Emoji breaks things I can see color emoji, but I stop being able to see most other fonts. Latin/greek/cyrillic/emoji display fine, but CJK, thai, braille are all gone. If I remove the prepend, CJK and others appear, and emoji go back to symbola. I'm not really sure what's going on and I ran out of weekend to play with this stuff. Any suggestions of stuff to check out are welcome! _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
