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.
