[tor-bugs] #20842 [User Experience]: Proposal: Improve Tor Browser font whitelist / bundled fonts

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#20842: Proposal: Improve Tor Browser font whitelist / bundled fonts
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 Reporter:  arthuredelstein  |          Owner:
     Type:  defect           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  User Experience  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-usability    |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by vegansalad):

 I'm interested in seeing some better unicode support for dingbats in Linux
 TBB.

 Simple things like the pencil doesn't work on TBB on Linux:
 ​https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/270E/browsertest.htm

 This is Unicode version 1.1.0 released in June, 1993.
 https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/270e/index.htm It probably
 should be supported in TBB.

 In TBB on Windows, the pencil works via Micro$oft's copyrighted MS PGothic
 (which Linux can't use) but it doesn't look very pretty at all.

 Also, black flag dingbats don't seem to work on TBB on either Windows or
 Linux: ​https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2691/browsertest.htm
 This came out in Unicode 4, which was released 14 years ago.

 The Up Down Arrow does work on Linux:
 ​https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2195/browsertest.htm

 Also, a regular multiplication sign works
 ​https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00D7/browsertest.htm but a
 "MULTIPLICATION X" does not.
 ​https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2715/browsertest.htm
 Multiplication X is also Unicode 1.1 which is 24 years old.

 When surfing the web, it isn't unusual to come across some of these and it
 looks silly when they don't render.

 I got these example errors while trying to figure out what was going on
 with fed.wiki.org and ended up writing a github issue about it, only to
 close it after I found out that it was a Tor Browser bug:
 https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki/issues/97

 Some people also were talking in this issue about emojis not working:
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18172

 Is https://www.google.com/get/noto/#emoji-zsye a possible solution to
 this? I'm not seeing a debian package for it.

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