RFR: 8269806: Emoji rendering on Linux [v18]

[Nikita Gubarkov]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 18:36:13 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Why shouldn't we? That's how it works on Windows - monochrome emoji in Segoe UI Symbos and colored in Segoe UI Emoji, not very convenient, but I believe we have to deal with it. Native apps do support this and I guess OS font rendering has some emoji-specific branching to support this.
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> Are you sure ? I would expect that Segoe UI Emoji has a glyf table as well as a colr table.

I thought so, but now you made me doubt. Anyway, I will read the code, recall this and will let you know what I find.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/4798