Re: Fonts providing emojis?
> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:02 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 06:06 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
>> Is it really the case tht there's no pre-built package for this in
>> Debian? These characters do seem to be increasingly widely used.
>
> For my exotic audio production needs I prefer Arch Linux over Debian.
>
> If you have other exotic needs, you perhaps are more lucky with a distro
> that fits to that needs. The huge amount of Debian packages is caused by
> splitting upstream to packages for libs, headers, bins, not because
> Debian does provide most software.
>
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi ttf-symbola | grep
> Description
> Description : Font for unicode symbols (part of Unicode Fonts
> for Ancient Scripts).
>
> I have got doubts that "Fonts for Ancient Scripts" are
> "increasingly
> widely used". Assumed that font is the only exotic thingy you need, it
> shouldn't cause that much work to get it without a package provided by
> the official Debian repositories. AFAIK there's no distro that fits to
> all needs, that's why I'm using several distros, among others mainly
> Debian and Arch Linux.
I didnt think that this qualifies as an "exotic" need, i guess. I see this kind of thing on Twitter, in forums, in messages my kids send me from their phones. Thats why i said i thought they were widely used.
In general Debian has worked well for me, and ive gotten good help from this list when ive been stuck. I wouldnt lightly abandon Debian just because some other distro might be better in some edge cases. Even if viewing emojis is an edge case, which i didnt think it was.
Jen
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