Re: mintty emoji support

ASSI via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.applications
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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)?


Regards,
Achim.
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