mintty emoji support
Brian Inglis
Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Mon Aug 4 22:12:44 GMT 2025
On 2025-08-04 11:42, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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,
^ MS Corp provided TTF only> could you perhaps use one of them for Emoji
instead (at least unless no
> other suiteable free font is installed)?
$ more /etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/microsoft
# remove any broken links (-L -type l together)
/usr/bin/find -L /usr/share/fonts/microsoft -type l -delete
/usr/bin/find "`cygpath -W`"/Fonts/ -name '*.ttf' -exec grep -FlZ 'Microsoft
Corp' '{}' + | while read -d $'\0' f
do
if [ ! -e "/usr/share/fonts/microsoft/${f##*/}" ]
then
ln -s "$f" /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/
fi
done
/usr/bin/nohup /usr/libexec/fc-cache-1 -s || : &
I previously offered a similar script from my local postinstalls to symlink the
rest of the non-MS Corp and also non-TTF .[otT][tT][cfF] fonts and collections
into a *windows* font directory, or to be merged to replace the current release:
# fontconfig handles ttc TrueType collections and otf OpenType fonts and otc
collections
# find Windows non-MS Corp .ttf, all .TTF, .ttc, .otf, and .otc fonts and link
between fonts dirs
# Notes:
# DUBAI-*, MTEXTRA, others are 'Microsoft supplied font';
# all *.TTF are 'Microsoft Corp'; some are also 'Microsoft supplied font';
# .../Fonts may have Deleted subdirectory;
# grep -L returns names of files with no pattern matches;
/usr/bin/find "$win" -maxdepth 1 -type f \
\( -name '*.ttf' -exec /bin/grep -FaL "$mscorp" '{}' + \) \
-o \( -name '*.TTF' -print \) \
-o \( -iname '*.ttc' -print \) \
-o \( -iname '*.ot[cf]' -print \) | \
... [similar to existing]
Anyway the only MS Corp Windows emoji font is Segoe UI Emoji:
$ grep -Fl 'Microsoft Corp' Noto*.ttf …/Windows/Fonts/{seguiemj,*Emoji*}.ttf
/usr/share/{fonts/noto,texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/google/noto-emoji}/Noto*Emoji*.ttf
microsoft/Fonts/seguiemj.ttf
microsoft/Fonts/Windows 11 Emoji.ttf
$ fc-glyphs.sh SegoeUIEmoji
Glyphs Unicode Range Format Font Name PostScript Name Path Name
1961 0x20-0x1fa95 TrueType Segoe UI Emoji SegoeUIEmoji
microsoft/seguiemj.ttf
2016 0x20-0x1fad6 TrueType Segoe UI Emoji SegoeUIEmoji
microsoft/Windows 11 Emoji.ttf
These MS versions seem to be 1.29 and 1.31 but 1.45 is now available with Win11,
hopefully updated for Unicode 16, and can be extracted from a recent Win11 ISO.
Some MS images are available from GH MIT licensed, but other have restrictions
that prevent that:
https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji # Color supplied as SVG
https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji-animated # anim-PNG 5GB!
I found these emoji font files on my system, and it looks like TeXlive also
distributes some fonts, but I don't know if the directory/-ies are installed for
fontconfig, so I have added symlinks from
fonts/texmf-dist->../../texmf-dist/fonts/{open,true}type so they are accessible,
but they have a limited repertoire:
Glyphs Unicode Range Format Font Name PostScript Name Path Name
36 0x1f1e6-0xfe4ee TrueType Noto Color Emoji Flags NotoColorEmojiFlags
NotoColorEmoji-flagsonly.ttf
1466 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
NotoColorEmoji-noflags.ttf
1492 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji NotoColorEmoji.ttf
1492 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
NotoColorEmoji_WindowsCompatible.ttf
5335 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
NotoColorEmoji-emojicompat.ttf
1456 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
Noto-COLRv1-noflags.ttf
1492 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji Noto-COLRv1.ttf
5335 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
Noto-COLRv1-emojicompat.ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji-Bold NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji-Light NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji-Regular NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1961 0x20-0x1fa95 TrueType Segoe UI Emoji SegoeUIEmoji microsoft/seguiemj.ttf
2016 0x20-0x1fad6 TrueType Segoe UI Emoji SegoeUIEmoji microsoft/Windows 11
Emoji.ttf
1492 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
noto/NotoColorEmoji-Regular.ttf
885 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji windows/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf
1119 0x20-0x1f9c0 TrueType EmojiOne Color SVGinOT EmojiOneColorSVGinOT
windows/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf
1418 0x23-0xe007f TrueType Twemoji Mozilla TwemojiMozilla
windows/TwemojiMozilla.ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji-Bold
windows/NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji-Light
windows/NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji-Regular
windows/NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1487 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType windows/NotoEmoji[wght].ttf
1492 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
windows/NotoColorEmoji_WindowsCompatible.ttf
885 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Emoji NotoEmoji
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/google/noto-emoji/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf
1465 0x20-0xfe837 TrueType Noto Color Emoji NotoColorEmoji
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/google/noto-emoji/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
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