Not all new emojis are shown

Hello,

sadly not all new emotes are available for me, even noto fonts emoji is up to date:
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji
Warnung: noto-fonts-emoji-1:2.047-1 ist aktuell
e.g. Head Shaking Horizontally doesn’t works.

This is shown instead:
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Used it on my mobile in WhatsApp, with WhatsApp Desktop it doesn’t work. In other programms it doesn’t work too.

I have this in my fontsconfig ( ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf)

 <match target="pattern">
  <test name="family">
   <string>sans-serif</string>
  </test>
  <edit mode="append" name="family">
   <string>Noto Color Emoji</string>
  </edit>
 </match>

Maybe it would be helpful to you?

It looks like this AUR package does something similar;

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/75-noto-color-emoji.conf?h=noto-color-emoji-fontconfig

(You can opt to use the AUR package itself, or copy some or all of that config to your own)

Does this emote work for you
Head Shaking Horizontally
https://emojipedia.org/head-shaking-horizontally

I get various things depending on where I paste it:

Here :slightly_smiling_face:‍↔
Terminal :slightly_smiling_face:<200d>↔<fe0f>

Sublime text :slightly_smiling_face:‍↔ except the second one is a circular arrow and there seems to be a dot or something inbetween

Presumably because:

The Head Shaking Horizontally emoji is a ZWJ sequence combining :slightly_smiling_face: Slightly Smiling Face, Zero Width Joiner and ↔️ Left-Right Arrow. These display as a single emoji on supported platforms.

I guess it’s not supported properly yet. :man_shrugging:

EDIT:

The left right arrow looks different in preview, like this :slight_smile: :left_right_arrow:

Then it seems to be a global problem of Updating the font or the interpretation of these emotes.

It looks like this in terminal - but who needs emojis in terminal …:

It shows up correctly in Editor (Mousepad) and in Libreoffice as well.

For me the same

If you have software that prints something containing it, other emojis do work if I remember correctly.

I don’t have mousepad but it does show properly in Libreoffice Writer, I thought I tested the latter earlier today but I forgot to allow scripts on the linked site, and the last thing I’d copied was the non working one from here.

Systemd for example, see

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there is not any choice here anymore - only a heart I can give you … :slightly_smiling_face:

fancy !
Who cared / implemeted this? (rhetorical …)
I’m getting old …

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It does look correct to me.

Imgur

But it did not at first.

So theres a few things to mention.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts#Emoji_and_symbols

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Font_troubleshooting

And back to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

I now have the following inside

 <alias>
   <family>sans-serif</family>
   <prefer>
     <family>Noto Sans</family>
     <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
     <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   </prefer>
 </alias>

 <alias>
   <family>serif</family>
   <prefer>
     <family>Noto Serif</family>
     <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
     <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   </prefer>
 </alias>

 <alias>
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
    <family>Noto Mono</family>
    <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   </prefer>
 </alias>

Which seems to work alright, and be used in firefox once the above steps are taken.

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