[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#982468: Bug#982468: fonts-noto-color-emoji: U+1F52B PISTOL shows a water-spraying toy instead

[James Godfrey-Kittle]

For a little more context, see discussion at
https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/pull/213. In particular note
that this design upstream (i.e. in Noto) is actually motivated by a
need to be consistent with Apple, which made the change from pistol to
water gun about two years earlier. In this case Apple has effectively
dictated their own standard that contradicts Unicode, and forced other
platforms to follow. Practically all actively-maintained emoji fonts
are using a water gun glyph for U+1F52B at this point:
https://emojipedia.org/pistol/.

Anyways, what did you hope to accomplish by filing this bug against a
Debian package? Is Debian going to start designing its own hotfix
glyphs? If not, you should try to get this fixed in Noto (unlikely,
admittedly) or use a different font.