Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 21:28:05 -0500
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2021-11-27 at 21:08, Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:50:29 -0600
> > Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
> >
> >> * On 2021 26 Nov 11:36 -0600, Celejar wrote:
>
> >>> I finally got tired of seeing tofu for some of the glyphs in your sig,
> >>> so I looked up their Unicode codepoints:
> >>
> >> Interestingly, I see the glyphs in Mutt running in Gnome Terminal and in
> >> Vim as I edit this in the same Gnome Terminal. My font is one
> >> installed locally, Droid Sans Mono Slashed which provides the zero
> >> character with a slash.
> >>
> >> I know that there is keyboard sequence in Gnome Terminal (Ctl-Shift-E
> >> then Space) to bring up a menu to select Unicode glyphs.
> >>
> >> 🐮
> >
> > I'm pretty sure Droid Sans Mono Slashed doesn't have the glyphs in
> > question, and that you must actually have the noto or similar fonts
> > installed, with some part of the Gnome infrastructure finding them when
> > you select the glyphs. What does "fc-list | grep noto" show?
>
> If my own system is any guide, that may be an overly broad sort of
> question.
>
> $ fc-list | wc -l
> 2479
Well, I didn't ask for that one.
> $ fc-list | grep noto | wc -l
> 1847
Huh. Our systems must be very different:
~$ fc-list | grep noto | wc -l
1
~$ fc-list | grep noto
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular
> $ fc-list | grep -v noto | wc -l
> 632
>
> Asking for the output of something that produces potentially thousands
> of lines may be slightly ill-advised (although asking the user to check
> that output and report back might be another story, and now that I look
> back it's not entirely clear which of the two you were intending).
I confess that it simply didn't occur to me that some systems would be
so different from mine. I concede that that may have been a naive
assumption ;)
> The above is with the following installed package set:
>
> dpkg -l "fonts-noto*" | grep ^ii
> ii fonts-noto-core 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" font
> families with large Unicode coverage (core)
> ii fonts-noto-extra 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" font
> families with large Unicode coverage (extra)
> ii fonts-noto-mono 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" monospaced
> font family with large Unicode coverage
> ii fonts-noto-ui-core 20201225-1 all "No Tofu" font
> families with large Unicode coverage (UI core)
>
> I don't think I was aware that there are color versions, and I certainly
> don't think I'd want them.
>
> (FWIW, with this set installed, I see actual glyphs rather than the
> "tofu' for each of the four in Jonathan Dowland's .sig - although I
> can't actually quite tell what the second one is, even at full
> enlargement.)
Celejar
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