[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 108978] New: dejavu: add a configure option to disable emoji fonts optionally

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108978

            Bug ID: 108978
           Summary: dejavu: add a configure option to disable emoji fonts
                    optionally
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: pachoramos1 at gmail.com

DejaVU is used by default in more linux distributions, that causes that some
emojis are not shown in color (from, for example, Noto Color Emoji) and,
instead, an ugly mix between the emojis in black and white from dejavu and
other emojis from Noto Color to be shown in many web pages as explained at:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191976
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/136
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509988
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=908541

This has lead to even people going back to the old Bitstream Vera fonts to
avoid the emojis provided by dejavu:
https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/issues/17

Even there has been some tries to provided a patched dejavu without this fonts:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ttf-dejavu-emojiless

Thanks

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