Re: Status of multicolor fonts?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:00:18 -0500
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> Emacs already has support for displaying images inline, and there exists 
> Emacs packages for replacing certain Unicode characters with images 
> automatically (thus emulating support for Emoji fonts). From there, it 
> doesn't seem much of a stretch to discuss direct support for Emoji fonts in 
> Emacs.

Replacing certain characters with images is easy, and can be done in
Emacs already; you just need to code that explicitly in Lisp.  But
having this done automatically by the display engine whenever it sees
a certain codepoint is something else entirely.

IOW, the ability to display today images instead of some text is not
something that can evolve into automatic support for these characters
on the display engine level.