<i18n dev> Problems drawing supplemental characters in Java.

[Mark Davis ☕️]

On 28 April 2014 22:29, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

> I had supposed the emoji fonts provide the colour image as an alternative
> that some
> APIs understand and that any code asking directly for a normal glyph image
> would get it
> but I'd have to investigate what is happening in JDK code and how this can
> be resolved.
> Perhaps the emoji can be co-erced into being an ImageGraphicAttribute and
> we
> can use TextLayout to handle it but I suspect there'll be snags ..
>
> Obviously the crash needs to be looked at .. surprised no one has reported
> that before.
>

Thanks for looking at this. ​Also see:

FYI, here is how Firefox solved the problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715798#c44



Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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