On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 09:03:10AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I am closing this bug. See James' previous message here for more details. > > In this case, what is actually implemented and used by the major > platforms (messaging apps, browsers, and operating systems) is more > relevant than the written standard.
Perpetuating a violation is not right. Especially, when this is done for nasty political reasons (a particular sect of US politics). > If the conflict between the written standard and the implementation > bothers you, you could try working with Unicode to update the > standard. The current standard looks good as-is. On the other hand, it would be good to introduce a "water pistol" character to solve the issue at hand. > Because interoperability with non-Debian-based platforms is such an > essential feature of the Debian fonts-noto-color-emoji package, we > will not attempt to diverge this particular emoji from the upstream > maintainers. What solution would you propose then? I'm thinking, what if we had a separate package with a fontconfig override that corrects this glyph? Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A true bird-watcher waves his tail while doing so. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
