GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 790052
Letters and symbols (non-emoji characters) don't appear in search results
Last modified: 2018-02-15 13:47:45 UTC
If I search for a character when I'm in the initial emoji section, they don't show up in the results. To search for them, I have to first open "letters and symbols" and then search. The reverse isn't true though - emoji are shown in the search results if you search from the "letters and symbols" section. I think you ought to be able to search for all characters from anywhere in the app...
I'm suspecting this might be the same issue as bug 788522?
Created attachment 364144 [details] Screenshot with invisible characters I'm experiencing the same. Emojis don't show up at all, despite choosing some emoji font. Funnily, it even offers me to copy the character to the clipboard, and when I paste it with the same font, it's working. Definitely looks like a gnome-characters issue. (Fedora 27)
(In reply to Gergely Gombos from comment #2) > I'm experiencing the same. This is not the same issue; we were talking about search results, not the Emoji display itself. I would suggest to file a separate bug (preferably in Fedora, because it's related to font installation).
Hello, sorry for posting in the wrong thread. How can we prove or disprove that this is a distro bug? I.e. Google Noto Emoji is installed via a package. Other apps can use these fonts properly, and opening up the TTF file in /usr/share/fonts shows me the font. (Here's the package content list: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/google-noto-emoji-fonts/contents/) The character viewer does list the characters in some way, since if I click (see the screenshot) on any of them, the character's name shows up. It's the characters (emojis) that are not displaying. Have you got any suggestions regarding how to learn more about this?
(In reply to Daiki Ueno from comment #1) > I'm suspecting this might be the same issue as bug 788522? Oh I think it might be! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 788522 ***
It's working now in F27 - maybe a fc-cache update I did solved it? Does gnome-characters use it in any way? (I'm asking because gnome-characters is the same version as when I opened this bug.)