Not all new emojis are shown

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

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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)

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

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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:

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

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

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

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For me the same

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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.

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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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