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Please open a terminal and enter sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji

Then create a local with nano:

sudo nano /etc/fonts/local.conf

And add the following :

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <alias>
  <family>sans-serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Sans</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Serif</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Mono</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

Then hit ctrl +s to save and ctrl +x to exit.

Enter fc-cache -f -v to regenerate the font cache.

Voilà!

Have a wonderful day!

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