> Following your suggestion, Werner, I tried the test file with the
> cairo back end, and it worked as expected.
Great, please send me the created PDF for further analysis – just to
be sure :-)
> I then deleted the Noto Color Emoji font (synaptic also deleted
> texlive fonts extra links), and retried the test file. Again, it
> worked as expected.
Really? I would rather expect that the digits are still taken from
another fallback font. Please send me the created PDF for further
analysis, too.
Werner