This bug was fixed in the package fonts-noto-color-emoji - 2.047-1
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fonts-noto-color-emoji (2.047-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release (LP: #2083629)
- This major update introduces support for the Unicode 16.0 standard
https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-debuts-emoji-16-0-support/
-- Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:51:22 -0400
** Changed in: fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083629
Title:
Update fonts-noto-color-emoji to 2.047
Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Impact
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Ubuntu has included Google's color emoji font by default for years.
Annually, the Unicode Consortium releases a new Unicode standard with
new emoji. Internet communication platforms quickly adopt the new
emoji and it's important that those emoji also work on the latest
Ubuntu release.
Emojipedia provides a list of the emoji provided by this font.
Click the New link to see the new emoji.
https://emojipedia.org/google/16.0/
Or see https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-debuts-emoji-16-0-support/
More background at https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/breaking-the-
cycle
Test Plan
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The test plan is outlined on this wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/EmojiFont
Where problems could occur
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Sometimes there is an issue with the display of a particular font after the
font has been updated. See LP: #2034986 for instance. Perhaps this is a bug
with font caching. In this case, it is not believed that the color emoji font
is used by GNOME Shell itself so a simple restart of any apps that use emoji
should be enough to fix that issue.
This could technically be a User Interface Freeze change, but the new
emoji don't show in the Ubuntu docs or official screenshots. So there
doesn't seem to be a need to notify the Docs team. There are no
translations here so no need to notify the Translations team.
Other Info
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There hasn't yet been a stable release of CLDR to match the new Unicode 16
version. Until this happens, we can't update gnome-characters to show the new
emoji. Also, until that happens, emojibase won't update their data which is
used for GTK's emoji choosers. There are some technical details about how those
updates work at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Emoji
We will likely do SRUs later for gnome-characters, gtk4 and gtk3 for
new emoji enablement.
If this isn't accepted before Ubuntu 24.10's release, we will do an
SRU later.
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