Bug 108978

Summary:	dejavu: add a configure option to disable emoji fonts optionally
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pachoramos1>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
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Description Pacho Ramos 2018-12-08 10:27:35 UTC

DejaVU is used by default in more linux distributions, that causes that some emojis are not shown in color (from, for example, Noto Color Emoji) and, instead, an ugly mix between the emojis in black and white from dejavu and other emojis from Noto Color to be shown in many web pages as explained at:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191976
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/136
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509988
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=908541

This has lead to even people going back to the old Bitstream Vera fonts to avoid the emojis provided by dejavu:
https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/issues/17

Even there has been some tries to provided a patched dejavu without this fonts:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ttf-dejavu-emojiless

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