[Fontconfig] Fwd: [ft-announce] FreeType now supports color emojis

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Eventually...  But that requires a lot more work from clients...

On 13-05-31 01:51 PM, Denis Jacquerye wrote:
> Are there any plans to support animated PNG?
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>>
>> You may remember that I was making sure bitmap scaling works in
>> fontconfig+cairo.  Now to the color part and how it affects fontconfig:
>>
>>   1. Like all rendering options, we need a new element for it, and we should
>> probably match on it too,
>>
>>   2. When scanning fonts, mark a font as color if any bitmap strike has color
>> glyphs.  May be good to add FreeType API for this,
>>
>>   3. If user requests FC_COLOR=false and a font with FC_COLOR=true is chosen,
>> well, I can't make my mind about what should happen.   If the font pattern
>> inherits the false, then the client can disable requesting color from FreeType
>> and the glyphs will be flattened to opacity maps.  So we definitely don't want
>> to lose the original request.  One way to do this is like the FC_PIXELSIZE
>> hack that I did, ie. copying FC_COLOR from pattern to font in a config
>> snippet.  I don't really like this option,
>>
>>   4. Add a generic category for "emoji" to alias to common free emoji fonts?
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> behdad
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [ft-announce] FreeType now supports color emojis
>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 19:50:18 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org>
>> To: freetype at nongnu.org, freetype-devel at nongnu.org, freetype-announce at nongnu.org
>>
>>
>> Behdad Esfahbod (on behalf of Google) contributed support for color
>> embedded bitmaps (eg. color emoji).
>>
>>   https://color-emoji.googlecode.com/git/specification/v1.html
>>
>> Here's a link to Google's blog entry:
>>
>>
>> http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2013/05/open-standard-color-font-fun-for.html
>>
>> Have fun!
>>
>>
>>     Werner
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