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		nicoburns 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rus... "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 66 days ago [–]

Yes, 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.

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