BMbmn__·Mar 28, 2020
You just need to supply fonts.
https://dn-works.com/ufas/#Symbola
https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font
https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/
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Twitter Unicode emoji color OpenType-SVG font for Linux/MacOS/Windows
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In String Lengths in UnicodeI expected this to be the solution for my broken Linux font experience. In Linux there is no support for Emoji and every time someone uses them in a website to display so semi-important idea I get frustrated because the only thing I see is a blank character or a rectangular border. I thought this service was something like "discover what this non-supported character actually is" more than "discover what is the meaning of this character".
I know about the existence of alternatives [1][2] but I wish there was native support for this trend in Linux. And yes, I know emoji is actually an old thing from Japan companies, but is still a young trend in terms of western usage.
I wonder how difficult would be to copy all those images from the Apple font and create a custom TTF so I can get the fancy colored symbols in my computer. Of course, distrib
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ution of that file would be against Apple's copyright (or maybe not, I don't know) but I don't care.
EDIT1: Actually this is what I was expecting to be; I forgot I had disabled JavaScript in my browser. Still would like to have an official font with Emoji support for Linux.
EDIT2: Thanks to gtk40 I found [3] now I can create my own font with those images.
[1] https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font
[2] https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font
[3] http://emojipedia.org/apple/
FWIW, linux also has some emoji that are colour, albeit, gecko-only: https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font
In Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?