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

[Adam Borowski]

On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 09:03:10AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I am closing this bug. See James' previous message here for more details.
> 
> In this case, what is actually implemented and used by the major
> platforms (messaging apps, browsers, and operating systems) is more
> relevant than the written standard.

Perpetuating a violation is not right.  Especially, when this is done for
nasty political reasons (a particular sect of US politics).

> If the conflict between the written standard and the implementation
> bothers you, you could try working with Unicode to update the
> standard.

The current standard looks good as-is.  On the other hand, it would be good
to introduce a "water pistol" character to solve the issue at hand.

> Because interoperability with non-Debian-based platforms is such an
> essential feature of the Debian fonts-noto-color-emoji package, we
> will not attempt to diverge this particular emoji from the upstream
> maintainers.

What solution would you propose then?

I'm thinking, what if we had a separate package with a fontconfig override
that corrects this glyph?


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