Another possible approach to globally support emojis, is using fontconfig with a patched cairo. Google developer @behdad put in some great legwork with that . Details here:
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto- emoji/issues/36#issuecomment-168209204 I think what's needed is to assess whether the patch works, is viable to be part of ubuntu cairo binaries (or maybe kicked up to the source maintainers), makes sense as the approach to use, etc.. Count me in as another user looking forward to using emojis on my terminal, text editors, etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1137630 Title: Emojis are not shown in ubuntu applications (and phone) Status in ttf-ancient-fonts package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, As Ubuntu is being ported to tablets and phones, where communication is an important aspect of their fonctionality, I would like to ask whether it would be possible to add the glyphs of the emojis and other symbols, which have been defined in Unicode 6.0 and 6.1 to the Ubuntu font. If I am correct, the emoticons/emojis are code in Unicode from U+1F600 bis U+1F64F. However, other symbols like broken heart and others might also be interesting, for example: U+1F493 - U+1F493, U+1F4A1 - U+1F4A6, U+2639 - U+2642,... For those interested, these glyphs are currently included in the fonts-vlgothic package in the Ubuntu repositories. Cheers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-ancient-fonts/+bug/1137630/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
