GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 762830
gnome-characters-3.18: all emojis from unicode-7 missing
Last modified: 2017-08-10 14:49:42 UTC
Created attachment 322604 [details] 1.png As you can see in screenshot, many emojis are missing. I am not sure what package is the responsible of providing that support, but I expected gnome-characters to be able to play with more emojis and that is not the case :( Thanks for your help
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #0) > many emojis are missing. I am not sure what package is the responsible of providing that support Those emojis look fine here in Debian with fonts-symbola installed.
Umm, it looks like we don't have that fonts packages on Gentoo (at least with that name). Do you know if there is any other fonts providing that icons? (it looks Cantarell don't provide them) Thanks :)
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #2) > Umm, it looks like we don't have that fonts packages on Gentoo (at least > with that name). Do you know if there is any other fonts providing that > icons? (it looks Cantarell don't provide them) > > Thanks :) I'm not at home with how it works in Gentoo, but this looks like the right font (at least it lists the same upstream as the Debian font): https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-fonts/symbola
It worked, thanks a lot :D I got confused as I tried to search by "fonts-..." (some other fonts are packages starting with that :/) Anyway, I am unsure if there would be a way to warn or to provide the fonts for that unicode symbols in Cantarell (that is the font set that will be available in most setups) For example, now I see more fonts are missing in Maths section (like U+1EEF0 and I have no idea about how to know what fonts should I install for getting them :(
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #4) > For example, now I see more fonts are missing in Maths section (like U+1EEF0 > and I have no idea about how to know what fonts should I install for getting > them :( I see I got U+1EEF0 from unifont, but do not expect it to be pretty. Probably https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-fonts/unifont for you. As for a simple way to know which font is missing for any given character, I do not know.
It might not help with symbol characters, but on Fedora you can find fonts by fontconfig tags: repoquery --whatprovides 'font(:lang=zh-tw)' PackageKit used to offer a font installation dialog using this feature, though it was a bit too excessive (bug 745222). Perhaps we could get it back as an inconspicuous option - maybe "Install Font" button on the character dialog?
IMO, this a distribution problem, and installing a semi-complete symbol font should be the distribution's job. For example, Fedora ships google-android-emoji-fonts, the pre-Noto emoji font. Probably not the best choice, but it's one your distribution could ship. Symbola and Noto are also options.
You should install a font with the "emoji" alias (similarly to how we install a font with "Sans" as an alias) to get those emoji chosen from the appropriate font. See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785566 and bug 764794