[GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 3.906 Released

[John Ralls]

It's not a general open-source problem, it's a Gtk Quartz problem. There's a similar issue on Gramps having to do with certain symbols used by some genealogists to indicate characteristics or relationship types, e.g. ⚭ for marriage or ⚰︎ for death. That's why I already knew about the details of the problem.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jun 25, 2020, at 3:25 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible that developers in some other open source project may have
> been faced with a similar problem, or are you so far ahead of them that
> they are all waiting to see what you do?
> 
> David Carlson
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 3:24 AM Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Adrian, maybe for a start one could just try and see if you can paste those
>> unicodes or some other into the notes/memo fields, that is how I started
>> and when it worked I thought about using them.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Bob
>> 
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 02:10, Adrien Monteleone <
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I’d be happy to play with the CSS, but I don’t see a way to target that
>>> cell. All I get are the sheet and the entry cell.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 24, 2020 w26d176, at 8:05 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Font handling in Gtk on MacOS is weird: Pango only calculates the
>> layout
>>> for computing box sizes. The actual glyph selection and layout is handled
>>> by Cairo, and I don't think it knows how to use CoreText's font
>>> substitution. WebKitGtk complicates matters by requiring the FreeType2
>>> Pango backend as well and that does its own font substitution.
>> Regardless,
>>> pango is finding the emojis so the test passes. Cairo isn't putting a
>>> missing glyph glyph there like I'd expect. I haven't yet figured out why
>>> not.
>>>> 
>>>> I can think of two avenues to try: Simply forcing have_glyphs to false
>>> on MacOS would display the regular letters. Not as pretty but it's sure
>> to
>>> work. A bit more difficult and in need of testing would be to use CSS to
>>> set the font family for the Association cell to Apple Color Emojis on
>> MacOS.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>>> 
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