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Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

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On Tue 30 Nov 2021 at 10:47:07 (+0000), Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 11:54:16AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> > eagerly leaving behind the originally all-text form of e-mail
> 
> Unicode *is* text, as far as I'm concerned. I don't see the point in
> limiting what I write to a 7-bit namespace from the 1960s, even if I am
> fortunate enough that my chosen names are representable in it.

I agree. It's almost as important that people read, or can switch
to, a fixed width font when reading technical lists like this one.

> > in favour of graphics that are gleefully being used to highlight them.
> 
> My signature includes an emoji which is configured to be a reasonable
> approximation of my appearance.

… bearing in mind that what we see depends on the fonts we have
installed. Until Sunday, your emoji had the bouffant/flip of
Mary Tyler Moore, but then she got older and lost the flip. If
I reverse the colours of the latter, it becomes more like a
mop with a parting, say John Lennon before he grew it long.
As for the firefox version, it manages to combine them, but
throws the emphasis onto the face, and just looks like a
mischievous kid's cartoon character.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a  specific partition of an external device? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2021-11-28 21:20 +0100
  Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount  a specific partition of an external device? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-28 22:20 +0100
  Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount  a specific partition of an external device? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-11-30 11:50 +0100
    Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount  a specific partition of an external device? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-02 04:40 +0100
      Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount  a specific partition of an external device? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-12-02 08:10 +0100
        Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount  a specific partition of an external device? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-12-02 12:20 +0100
          Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount  a specific partition of an external device? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-03 04:00 +0100

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