Bug 1488096 - pango update causes problems selecting the "Noto Color Emoji" font
Summary: pango update causes problems selecting the "Noto Color Emoji" font
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pango
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Akira TAGOH
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-04 10:26 UTC by Mike FABIAN
Modified: 2018-05-29 11:25 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 11:25:14 UTC
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pango-emoji-test.txt, contains U+1F600 followed by a line break. (5 bytes, text/plain)
2017-09-04 10:26 UTC, Mike FABIAN
no flags Details
emoji.png (211.43 KB, image/png)
2017-09-04 10:45 UTC, Mike FABIAN
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Description Mike FABIAN 2017-09-04 10:26:27 UTC
Created attachment 1321762 [details]
pango-emoji-test.txt, contains U+1F600 followed by a line break.

I am using Fedora 26 with all current updates.

Several fonts containing a glyph for U+1F600 GRINNING FACE are installed:

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ fc-list "Noto Color Emoji"
    /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-emoji/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ fc-list "Symbola"
    /usr/share/fonts/gdouros-symbola/Symbola.ttf: Symbola:style=Regular
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ fc-list "DejaVu Sans"
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Oblique,Oblique
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold,Bold
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Book
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Bold
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf: DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed,Book
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf: DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Light:style=ExtraLight
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed:style=Condensed Bold Oblique,Bold Oblique
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique
    /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans:style=Bold Oblique
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 

Now I am trying to display the attached test file the attached test file pango-emoji-test.txt which contains U+1F600 GRINNING FACE
followed by a line break with pango-view:

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ pango-view --font='Noto Color Emoji 50' pango-emoji-test.txt &
    [1] 6676
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 

It displays the emoji *not* using the requested 'Noto Color Emoji' font but with some other font instead:

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ grep fonts /proc/6676/maps
    7f4467435000-7f44674ee000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 916645                     /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 

The versions of pango and the google-noto-emoji-fonts packages are:

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ rpm -q pango
    pango-1.40.11-3.fc26.x86_64
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ rpm -q google-noto-emoji-fonts
    google-noto-emoji-fonts-20170827-1.fc26.noarch
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$

Now I downgrade pango:

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ sudo dnf downgrade pango
    [sudo] password for mfabian: 
    Last metadata expiration check: 2:56:42 ago on Mon 04 Sep 2017 09:26:27 CEST.
    Dependencies resolved.
    ========================================================================================================
     Package              Arch                  Version                         Repository             Size
    ========================================================================================================
    Downgrading:
     pango                x86_64                1.40.6-1.fc26                   fedora                280 k

    Transaction Summary
    ========================================================================================================
    Downgrade  1 Package

    Total download size: 280 k
    Is this ok [y/N]: y
    Downloading Packages:
    pango-1.40.6-1.fc26.x86_64.rpm                                          635 kB/s | 280 kB     00:00    
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total                                                                   163 kB/s | 280 kB     00:01     
    Running transaction check
    Transaction check succeeded.
    Running transaction test
    Transaction test succeeded.
    Running transaction
      Preparing        :                                                                                1/1 
      Downgrading      : pango-1.40.6-1.fc26.x86_64                                                     1/2 
      Running scriptlet: pango-1.40.6-1.fc26.x86_64                                                     1/2 
      Erasing          : pango-1.40.11-3.fc26.x86_64                                                    2/2 
      Running scriptlet: pango-1.40.11-3.fc26.x86_64                                                    2/2 
      Verifying        : pango-1.40.6-1.fc26.x86_64                                                     1/2 
      Verifying        : pango-1.40.11-3.fc26.x86_64                                                    2/2 

    Downgraded:
      pango.x86_64 1.40.6-1.fc26                                                                            

    Complete!
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 

And try again to display the test file:

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ pango-view --font='Noto Color Emoji 50' pango-emoji-test.txt &
    [2] 6891
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ 

Now it is displayed using the correct font.

    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$ grep fonts /proc/6891/maps 
    7f7725d53000-7f772643e000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 941063                     /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-emoji/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
    [mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_6 ~]$

Comment 1 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-04 10:45:34 UTC
Created attachment 1321789 [details]
emoji.png

Screenshot  showing how the emoji U+1F600 looks  like
when "Noto Color Emoji" is used and when not.

The instance of pango-viewer at the top left shows the test
file displayed using the “DejaVu Sans” font (pango1.40.6-1.fc26.x86_64),
the instance of pango-viewer below that shows the test
file displayed using the “Noto Color Emoji” font.

As the “Noto Color Emoji” font was explicitely requested
on the command line of pango-viewer, using any other font is wrong.

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2017-09-04 11:45:07 UTC
Hm, that is because pango relies on the latest updates of fontconfig to choose emoji fonts and managing emoji fonts separately in the code. no matter what fonts you specify, pango will uses a "emoji font" when emoji sequence appears. so the right solution would be to update fontconfig which supports emoji.

For reference:
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/commit/?id=fe0669798d617406b52a638fb2525b1f7527a2d6

Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-04 13:33:08 UTC
(In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #2)
> Hm, that is because pango relies on the latest updates of fontconfig to
> choose emoji fonts and managing emoji fonts separately in the code. no
> matter what fonts you specify, pango will uses a "emoji font" when emoji
> sequence appears. so the right solution would be to update fontconfig which
> supports emoji.
> 
> For reference:
>  
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/commit/
> ?id=fe0669798d617406b52a638fb2525b1f7527a2d6

I see!

I can see some emoji related commits in fontconfig git master.

So we need an update of fontconfig for Fedora 26 then, right?

Comment 4 Akira TAGOH 2017-09-05 02:05:22 UTC
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #3)
> So we need an update of fontconfig for Fedora 26 then, right?

Right.

Comment 5 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-05 15:47:36 UTC
OK, I tried fontconfig master and it works better.

Better  in the sense that it *always* uses a color emoji
font like "Noto Color Emoji" if possible.

But that means that  now

     pango-view --font='Symbola 50' pango-emoji-test.txt &

does not work anymore, it still uses "Noto Color Emoji" even though
"Symbola" has been requested on the command line.

Is it possible to force the use of a black and white emoji font like
Symbola?

Comment 6 Akira TAGOH 2017-09-06 06:00:09 UTC
If you request a non-color font, yes.

Comment 7 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-06 06:27:28 UTC
(In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #6)
> If you request a non-color font, yes.

But how? Requesting Symbola on the command line of pango-view
asin comment#5 does not work anymore. And requesting it in a config file
of some program using pango does not work anymore either.

Comment 8 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-06 06:34:07 UTC
I cannot choose the emoji font at all anymore.

If I have the fonts “Emoji One”, “Noto Color Emoji”, and “Symbola”
installed, pango-view will display emoji *always* using “Emoji One”,
no matter what font I request on the command line. I.e. as long 
as “Emoji One” is installed,

pango-view --font='Noto Color Emoji 50' pango-emoji-test.txt &

uses “Emoji One". Only if I delete “Emoji One”, the above
pango-view command will use “Noto Color Emoji”.

Comment 9 Akira TAGOH 2017-09-06 06:42:31 UTC
Well, given that you use the latest fontconfig, that is because of the order of emoji fonts in 45-generic.conf.

You could customize your fonts.conf to have Noto Color Emoji:
<match>
  <test name="family"><string>emoji</string></test>
  <edit name="family" mode="prepend">Noto Color Emoji</edit>
</match>

Or to have non-color:
<match>
  <test name="family"><string>emoji</string></test>
  <edit name="family" mode="prepend"><string>Noto Color Emoji</string></edit>
  <edit name="color"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>

Comment 10 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-06 08:34:51 UTC
(In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #9)
> Well, given that you use the latest fontconfig, that is because of the order
> of emoji fonts in 45-generic.conf.
> 
> You could customize your fonts.conf to have Noto Color Emoji:
> <match>
>   <test name="family"><string>emoji</string></test>
>   <edit name="family" mode="prepend">Noto Color Emoji</edit>
> </match>


That doesn’t work for me,  I still get "Emoji One" if it is installed.

> Or to have non-color:
> <match>
>   <test name="family"><string>emoji</string></test>
>   <edit name="family" mode="prepend"><string>Noto Color Emoji</string></edit>
>   <edit name="color"><bool>false</bool></edit>
> </match>

That makes the black and white font "Noto Emoji" to be used *always*,
no matter what I specify on the command line of pango-view.
So I still cannot choose “Symbola”.

Editing fonts.conf is quite difficult and not really possible for
normal users.

Shouldn’t it be possible somehow to select a font for  emoji from
an application?

For example, the “emoji-picker” program has a font selection menu.
With the latest fontconfig and pango, this font selection menu
does not work anymore, it always chooses the same font depending
on the fontconfig setup. So one cannot easily switch the font in
emoji-picker anymore to see how the emoji would look like in
some other font, one always has to do rather complicated editing
of fonts.conf.

Comment 11 Akira TAGOH 2017-09-06 08:46:10 UTC
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #10)
> That makes the black and white font "Noto Emoji" to be used *always*,
> no matter what I specify on the command line of pango-view.

As I said earlier, pango now maintains a normal font and an emoji font separately, and there are no options to override it. you could file an RFE for that to upstream.
That would helps for picker issue too I suppose.

Comment 12 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-06 10:53:20 UTC
(In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #11)
> (In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #10)
> > That makes the black and white font "Noto Emoji" to be used *always*,
> > no matter what I specify on the command line of pango-view.
> 
> As I said earlier, pango now maintains a normal font and an emoji font
> separately, and there are no options to override it. you could file an RFE
> for that to upstream.
> That would helps for picker issue too I suppose.

Yes, I’ll report an RFE upstream, I think it should be possible to choose
a font for emoji using pango without having to edit fonts.conf.

Comment 13 Mike FABIAN 2017-09-06 14:31:18 UTC
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #12)
> (In reply to Akira TAGOH from comment #11)
> > (In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #10)
> > > That makes the black and white font "Noto Emoji" to be used *always*,
> > > no matter what I specify on the command line of pango-view.
> > 
> > As I said earlier, pango now maintains a normal font and an emoji font
> > separately, and there are no options to override it. you could file an RFE
> > for that to upstream.
> > That would helps for picker issue too I suppose.
> 
> Yes, I’ll report an RFE upstream, I think it should be possible to choose
> a font for emoji using pango without having to edit fonts.conf.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787365

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