GNU bug report logs - #70444
Broken Emoticons in Browsers

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From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Broken Emoticons in Browsers
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:03:11 +0200

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Hi,

for more than a month now many emoticons are broken in my browsers.

An example is https://www.draketo.de/wissen/klimalinks.html
I see ⚠, but I cannot see 💡 (though copying it into an Emacs buffer
shows the icon).

Also Flags like 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 are broken.

I have a huge number of fonts installed (list at the end), so this
should actually work.

I attached a screenshot from icecat which shows the problem;
ungoogled-chromium has it, too. Firefox installed via flatpak works,
though (second attached image).

[2024-04-17-235642_312x95_scrot--font-broken-icecat.png (image/png, attachment)]

[2024-04-18-000050_547x99_scrot--font-works-firefox-from-flatpak.png (image/png, attachment)]

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Best wishes,
Arne

Installed fonts in /etc/config.scm:

        font-adobe-source-code-pro font-adobe-source-han-sans font-adobe-source-sans-pro font-adobe-source-serif-pro font-anonymous-pro font-anonymous-pro-minus font-awesome font-bitstream-vera font-blackfoundry-inria font-cns11643-swjz font-comic-neue font-culmus font-dejavu font-dosis font-dseg font-fantasque-sans font-fira-code font-fira-mono font-fira-sans font-fontna-yasashisa-antique font-gnu-freefont font-gnu-unifont font-go font-google-material-design-icons font-google-noto font-google-roboto font-hack font-ibm-plex font-inconsolata font-iosevka font-iosevka-aile font-iosevka-etoile font-iosevka-slab font-iosevka-term font-iosevka-term-slab font-ipa-mj-mincho font-jetbrains-mono font-lato font-liberation font-linuxlibertine font-lohit font-meera-inimai font-mononoki font-mplus-testflight font-opendyslexic font-public-sans font-rachana font-sarasa-gothic font-sil-andika font-sil-charis font-sil-gentium font-tamzen font-terminus font-tex-gyre font-un font-vazir font-wqy-microhei font-wqy-zenhei 
        ;; more fonts
        texlive-palatino texlive-fpl texlive-mathpazo
        ;; lots of fonts from package xorg.scm
        font-adobe100dpi font-adobe75dpi font-cronyx-cyrillic font-dec-misc font-isas-misc font-micro-misc font-misc-cyrillic font-misc-ethiopic font-misc-misc font-mutt-misc font-schumacher-misc font-screen-cyrillic font-sony-misc font-sun-misc font-util font-winitzki-cyrillic font-xfree86-type1 

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>, 70444 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70444: Broken Emoticons in Browsers
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:29:37 +0200

Hi Arne,

On Thu, Apr 18 2024, "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:

> for more than a month now many emoticons are broken in my browsers.
>
> An example is https://www.draketo.de/wissen/klimalinks.html
> I see ⚠, but I cannot see 💡 (though copying it into an Emacs buffer
> shows the icon).
>
> Also Flags like 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 are broken.
>
> I have a huge number of fonts installed (list at the end), so this
> should actually work.
>
> I attached a screenshot from icecat which shows the problem;
> ungoogled-chromium has it, too. Firefox installed via flatpak works,
> though (second attached image).

As a workaround, those emoticons still work with ‘torbrowser’ and
‘mullvadbrowser’.  Their font list comes from upstream and they can't
include system fonts.  (This is also better against fingerprinting.)

Clément

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