1321685 - Monochrome system font's emoji overrule EmojiOne

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P3)

Description

[Markus S.]

Attachment: Screenshot_20161202_010350.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161124113708

Steps to reproduce:

Visit http://getemoji.com/


Actual results:

Emoji from two or maybe even three fonts are displayed. See attached screenshot.


Expected results:

Firefox bundles EmojiOne on certain platforms for a reason: Because they have no or incomplete emoji support. Therefore on platforms where Firefox ships EmojiOne, that font should take precedence over competing, incomplete fonts.

Bonus points for an additional option in the font configurator to pick the preferred emoji font. Considering that Twitter, Google, etc. also make free emoji sets, users may wanna pick their favorite set.

Comment 1

[Guo Yunhe]

Have the same problem on Linux.

Firefox uses and respect fontconfig rules. So system Sans Serif fonts get higher priority than EmojiOne Mozilla, which only available in Firefox, not system-wide. Fonts like DejaVu Sans contains a lot of monochrome emoji symbols, and has a predefined high priority in fontconfig. So users would see some monochrome emoji.

Comment 2

[Alexandre Folle de Menezes]

I like the configurable Emoji Font idea.

Comment 3

[Kuba Niewiarowski]

Duplicate of #1321586.

Comment 4

[Kuba Niewiarowski]

Duh. Duplicate of #1321586

Comment 5

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Bug 1032671 could be a part of the solution here, I think.