Make sure color fonts work

Bug #1543921 reported by BehdadEsfahbod
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fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Expired
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Can someone please confirm that color fonts work in latest Ubuntu?

Please install a sample font from:

  https://github.com/behdad/color-emoji/blob/master/specification/examples/PhantomOpenEmoji.ttf

then, at least in Chrome, you should be able to see color glyphs correctly. In other apps, you probably will see them grayscale, but they should be there and of the correct size.

This requires a recent fontconfig, and hopefully with default config that doesn't mess up with bitmap color fonts. All reports I've received say that it doesn't work, hence this bug.

William Grant (wgrant)
affects: launchpad → ubuntu
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Ubuntu 16.04 was shipped with fontconfig 2.11.94. Does it fix this bug?

affects: ubuntu → fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Joakim Koed (vooze) wrote :

Gunnar: maybe you should also look at this: https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/157 it would be cool if that was patched.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

On 2016-07-13 11:06, Joakim Koed wrote:
> Gunnar: maybe you should also look at this:
> https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/157
> it would be cool if that was patched.

If you want to see that in Ubuntu, you'd better suggest it be applied upstream. Probably not important enough to justify an Ubuntu specific patch.

Is that what this bug report is about? (The description is not crystal clear.)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for fontconfig (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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