mintty emoji support

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 04.08.2025 um 19:42 schrieb ASSI via Cygwin-apps:
> Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> 2. Make emoji packages that only contain a download script as a stub,
>> which is invoked per post-install to download emoji data.
> It's OK to rpovide a download script, but it's definitiely not OK to run
> it on postinstall.  Network isolated machines are a thing…
>
>> 3. Better integrate the already existing emoji deployment script with
>> mintty and maybe invoke it per post-install.
> Same.
>
> The Cygwin font directory links to the Windows system fonts anyway,
> could you perhaps use one of them for Emoji instead (at least unless no
> other suiteable free font is installed)?
Mintty uses .png graphic files for emoji display, not a font. I did not 
find any information how to use a font for emoji display in GDI or 
Uniscribe and anyway I don't think that method would provide emoji 
joining sequences which mintty supports.
Thomas

> Regards,
> Achim.