If we don't take this particular update, the biggest downside will be that emojis show up as separate parts. For example, the gender neutral health care worker will appear as two characters (adult and the medical symbol) instead of as a single character.
Google has released a new version of their Noto Emoji font.
I don't believe this requires a freeze exception since we should do these updates if possible so that emoji display correctly in Ubuntu.
For more details, see /blog.emojipedi a.org/google- march-2020- pixel-feature- drop-emoji- changelog/
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If we don't take this particular update, the biggest downside will be that emojis show up as separate parts. For example, the gender neutral health care worker will appear as two characters (adult and the medical symbol) instead of as a single character.
https:/ /emojipedia. org/health- worker/
However, we will also need an updated Pango for those new combined emoji to display as a single emoji in apps using Pango (such as GTK apps).
https:/ /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/pango/ -/commit/ 06aab3539f4a15a 2ae3977d715e820 35ea5b32d7