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Color Emoji support/multi-color fonts (FreeType 2.5?) #310

Open runvnc opened 10 years ago

runvnc commented 10 years ago

Hello, would it be possible to add emoji support? I was googling around and apparently I think FreeType2 supports it? http://www.freetype.org/ (see the release notes for version 2.5).

This is a link to a discussion of how Google added emojis to Android in case it is relevant http://sndbox.tumblr.com/post/67664038523/kitkats-color-emoji

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p-e-w commented 10 years ago

What exactly would "emoji support" mean in the context of a terminal emulator? I can understand what this would entail in, say, an IRC client, but a virtual terminal? Since e.g :) might well have a symbolic meaning in shell output, I don't think we want this to be auto-substituted by a smiling face...

runvnc commented 10 years ago

For example: Beer in my terminal?? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15146668/beer-in-my-terminal-how

LOL.

I believe they are actually basically multicolor Unicode characters.

p-e-w commented 10 years ago

That's pretty cool actually :) If this is indeed in FreeType, it should probably work out of the box with the right version.

I'll definitely give this a try.

runvnc commented 10 years ago

Great, I'm excited to see if it works.

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < notifications@github.com> wrote:

That's pretty cool actually :) If this is indeed in FreeType, it should probably work out of the box with the right version.

I'll definitely give this a try.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/issues/310#issuecomment-48846186.

muchweb commented 10 years ago

+1 This would be brilliant