Update regarding UTF-8
Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:12:12 +0100
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I discovered  that  Alacritty  too  works  well  with  UTF-8  color 
emojiis, I just  had  to  edit  ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf  to 
ensure  that the emoji fonts take precedence. The only emojiis that
don't work in Alacritty are the country flags,  however it could be 
that having a fast light terminal emulator like Alacritty  is  well 
worth this small inconveniance, as I  am  running  Artix  Linux,  a 
non-systemd  distribution,  and  terminal  emulators  like  wezterm 
and kitty are hiccuping warnings, while ghostty just bugs out.
Bear in mind that Alacritty doesn't do terminal graphics though.

previous phlog post:
gopher://spike.nagatha.fr:70/0/phlog/2025/2025-11-14-12-12-This-gopher-hole-uses-UTF-8.txt

 ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:

<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Joy Pixels</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Joy Pixels</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Joy Pixels</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Joy Pixels</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

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