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GargoyleFred

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Registered: 2024-01-04

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] No colorful emoji with fontconfig 2.15

I have two computers running Arch Linux, and as far as I can tell the font configuration is the default and the same between them. There is nothing in the "~/.config/fontconfig" directory, all the symlinks under "/etc/fonts/conf.d" are the same between the computers and all point to files in "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.default/", and the file "/etc/fonts/local.conf" does not exist. I have "noto-fonts-emoji" installed on both computers, but ever since the upgrade to fontconfig 2.15.0 one computer shows black-and-white outlines of some emoji (and outline squares for the rest) and the other computer still shows colorful emoji. When I run "fc-match emoji" on the computer without colorful emoji it prints:

NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

And if I run the same command on the computer with working emoji, it prints:

NotoColorEmoji.ttf: "Noto Color Emoji" "Regular"

I even tested with a brand-new user to make sure there wasn't any kind of user-level caching going on, and it is still broken. If I downgrade to fontconfig 2.14.2 on the computer with black-and-white emoji, it fixes things and I have colorful emoji again and the results of "fc-match emoji" are what I expect.

I did try adding a "/etc/fonts/local.conf" with this content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <alias>
   <family>sans-serif</family>
   <prefer>
     <family>Noto Sans</family>
     <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   </prefer> 
 </alias>

 <alias>
   <family>serif</family>
   <prefer>
     <family>Noto Serif</family>
     <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   </prefer>
 </alias>

 <alias>
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
    <family>Noto Mono</family>
    <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   </prefer>
 </alias>
</fontconfig>

That had no effect, even after running "fc-cache", so I removed it. The second computer does not have that file, and it still finds the colorful emoji.

Is there any other location for font configuration that I can check?

Last edited by GargoyleFred (2024-01-05 12:44:00)

nl6720

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 673

Re: [SOLVED] No colorful emoji with fontconfig 2.15

I had the same issue and deleting the /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf symlink fixed it for me. I guess fontconfig 2.15 considers Noto Color Emoji a bitmap font.

maboleth

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Registered: 2020-01-03

Posts: 228

Re: [SOLVED] No colorful emoji with fontconfig 2.15

I also have the same problem.
I don't have 70-no-bitmaps.conf or anything regarding bitmaps in /etc/fonts/conf.d

GargoyleFred

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Registered: 2024-01-04

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] No colorful emoji with fontconfig 2.15

I could have sworn that I double-checked that the fontconfig links were exactly the same between the computers, but there was indeed an extra symlink for 70-no-bitmaps.conf on the computer with black-and-white emoji. Once I removed that, the emoji were colorful again. Thanks!