[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:
Parent ID:                   |         Points:
 Reviewer:                   |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by vegansalad):

 Ok, I looked into noto emoji a bit more. I found that the "noto color
 emoji" font is being packaged here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
 bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849042

 It was said that this should allow for color and black and white emojis
 once it is finished.

 In the mean time, that link also said that
 https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ttf-ancient-fonts offers black and
 white fonts. I don't know how to look through it to see if it has the
 Unicode 1 thru Unicode 4 dingbats though. If it does, perhaps we could
 whitelist that.

 I also looked at https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/UnicodeCoverage to see if
 it might describe any packages that cover these old dingbats, but I wasn't
 able to figure it out.

 Can anyone help me figure out what debian packaged font should be
 whitelisted to get these old Unicode Characters to work in TBB?

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