[Bug 1615575] Re: Emoji support

[Brad Erickson]

In defense of Launchpad, haha: It may not be as pretty, but is tightly
integrated with Ubuntu, open source, and run by Canonical.

I've always expected support for CBLC/CBDT color format fonts in Linux
before SVGinOT. It's quicker to implement since it just uses bitmaps, no
SVG renderer needed. SVGinOT is the long term choice due to file size,
for example a CBLC/CBDT of EmojiOne will be 20MB+.

An option for now is to add emoji support using the existing font
rendering system. Both of my fonts provide regular fallback non-color
glyphs. They are machine generated, but acceptable IMO. Feature requests
could to be filed for support of SVGinOT and CBLC/CBDT in the stack
below Onboard. Greatly extends the timeline, but avoids a custom font
render system.

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