I tried with fonts-noto-color-emoji 0~20180810-0ubuntu1 from bionic- proposed and the new emojis are rendered correctly in the webbrowser and in a terminal and aren't with previous version of the font installed.
Marking as verification-done. ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic ** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-noto-color-emoji in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788256 Title: Update fonts-noto-color-emoji to 20180810 release for Unicode 11 Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Bug description: Impact ====== Google has released the latest version of their color emoji font that is shipped with Android 9 "Pie". The new release is a major upgrade, including support for the new Unicode 11 standard. Some existing emoji were tweaked. We need this update in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS so that the new emoji work. https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-11-0/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/inclusive-emojis-coming-back-to-android/ https://emojipedia.org/emoji-11.0/ Note that several of the new combined emoji (like red-haired man 👨🦰 ) will need an update elsewhere (pango?) to display as combined. Test Case ========= 1. After installing the update, visit https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html The browser column should match the Google column 2. You can also use the Characters app shipped by default to verify that the emoji seem to work ok. Regression Potential ==================== Except for being rebuilt from source in Ubuntu, this is basically the same emoji font Google ships in the latest Android. We can easily verify that the update is successful by completing the 2 test cases above. Other Info ========== Google does a major update of this font once per year corresponding with the annual release of the new Unicode standard and Android. Proposed pango update: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/merge_requests/15 gtk3 could then probably use an update to get the new emoji in its emoji chooser. Most other GNOME distros (including Debian Testing and Fedora 28) also use this font as their default color emoji font. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-color-emoji/+bug/1788256/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp