Make the Apple emoji hack more specific to Apple
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Description
We have a hack for the y offset of Apple emoji, see e.g. #981. However, this hack could be incorrectly applied to another font.
Thus we should add additional checks to make sure we only target the fonts we know for sure need it.
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Research direction
Start with the Apple emoji y-offset hack described in issue #981 and inspect where its font checks are implemented. Determine which name-table checks identify the known Apple fonts, then verify that the offset is no longer applied to unrelated sbix fonts.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100