Re: [css-fonts] new generic font 'emoji'

Wouldn't it be better yo fix font fallback instead?
On 21/08/2014 6:00 PM, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:

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> Currently CSS defines a set of five generic fonts [1]:
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>   serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy
>
> I'd like to propose expanding this to include a generic font for
> emoji characters:
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>   emoji
>
> The 'emoji' value would map to whatever emoji font is available on a
> given platform (e.g. Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Noto Color
> Emoji).
>
> Part of the motivation here is that when Unicode defined a mapping
> of emoji characters into Unicode, it explicitly unified some of
> these with existing symbol codepoints. If an author relies on system
> font fallback to choose a font there's no guarantee an emoji font
> will be prioritized over a symbol font, since it's difficult for a
> user agent to distinguish between symbol vs. emoji usage. Specifying
> the 'emoji' value in a fontlist would prioritize the use of color
> glyphs for all codepoints covered by the emoji font.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Daggett
> Mozilla Japan
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#generic-font-families
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