Speaking of which—sorry if this is going off-topic, but I don't know where
else could I ask—I don't think there's a way to configure Linux or Android
systems to always prefer text rendering for emojis, is there? (I love text
emojis.)
2017-07-24 16:24 GMT+02:00 Christoph Päper via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
:
> Leonardo Boiko:
> >
> > It would just be more
> > satisfying for me if the blue books were encoded in the font as U+1F4D8s,
> > rather than U+F02Ds. Or, if the colors are done at a CSS level, as 📕
> > U+1F4D5 CLOSED BOOKs or the like. Same goes for the other icons in FA
> > which *do *have an emoji counterpart (which would be, I suspect, the
> > majority).
>
> This issue has been raised long ago with the developers of such symbol
> fonts:
>
> <https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/222>
>
> The reason why this is not being done is the special treatment of emoji
> characters by vendors who always replace them by their custom images. Since
> such fonts are mostly used on the Web platform, the solution would be a CSS
> property to force `text` rendering of emojis:
>
> <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1144>
>
>
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