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"draw whatever is in a font at this codepoint" is doing quite a lot of work there. Some emoji fonts just embed a PNG which is easy. But COLRv1 fonts define an e
by nicoburns 1y ago
"draw whatever is in a font at this codepoint" is doing quite a lot of work there. Some emoji fonts just embed a PNG which is easy. But COLRv1 fonts define an entire vector graphics imaging model which is similar what you need to render an SVG.
- kibwen 1y agoYes, but at this point we're completely outside the scope of Unicode, which has nothing to do with how anything actually gets drawn to the screen.