RFR: 8290866: Apple Color Emoji turns gray after JavaFX version 18

[Phil Race]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:44:35 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I see some clipping of the emoji flag sequence characters, for example \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 when moving from the primary retina (scale=2) to secondary external (scale=1) monitor:

I tried the same size and sequence and in the provided test and did the same move from retina to external and there is NO clipping in any of Text/Label/TextField.
So I suspect something specific to what you are doing in your test .. not a general emoji problem.

> On a side note, it seems FX does not currently support rendering of flag emoji sequences such as 🇺🇦 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6
> 
> is this something we ought to be supporting?

Perhaps .. but that is beyond the scope of this fix.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1047