Public bug reported: Not sure if the maintainers here are aware of this, but libxft2 has been misbehaving with emoji for a while. The result is that e.g. st (the terminal emulator) and gitk crash immediately when trying to render emoji. Very annoying.
There's an upstream PR in the works here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_requests/1#note_567035 It is not merged upstream yet and does seem to need another push to do so. This persisted for me through an upgrade from 20.04 to "rolling rhino" and people in that thread report it for the 18. and 19 series too. I'm not in a position to contribute code to this, sadly. I barely understand what this is all about. But it is an annoying user facing bug so I figured it'd be better the Ubuntu maintainers be aware of it. Sorry if this is already being handled, I couldn't find any matching reports here yet. ** Affects: xft (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xft in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887646 Title: Add support for BGRA glyphs and scaling To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xft/+bug/1887646/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
