Majority of my emoji not showing on RPB3+

[lilpkstud]

I dont fully understand why my emojis are black/white or a giant box while I can clearly see it on my macbook in dev mode?

Any help of properly downloading an emoji file or how I can show all my emojis?

[lavolp3]

@lilpkstud Seems to be a browser issue.

Do you have an example?
Where do the emojis come from?

I remember someone else has had the same issue some time ago, and my first suspicion would be that apple uses a certain code for emojis that is not understood by others.

[lilpkstud]

@lavolp3 I copied and pasted from https://emojipedia.org.

An example is the fire emoji 🔥🔥🔥 https://emojipedia.org/fire/
This specific example will come out as a white box while all my other emoji are in black and white not colored

[retroflex]

If they are unicode I have seen that different browsers have very different support for symbols and smileys. I think the Electron version that MM is using lacks a lot of code points (symbols).

[lilpkstud]

@retroflex

So theres no way to display colored emojis or even the fire emoji?
Also would this be an Electron problem or a Raspberry/Raspbian problem?

[broberg]

@lilpkstud

At first glance it looks like a chromium/linux problem,

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=chromium+emoji+support

[lilpkstud]

@broberg Thanks for the fast replies!

I will look into the smart mirror this weekend

[retroflex]

I’ve seen some colored symbols, but don’t know if you can get an overview of those that are working on MM.

[lilpkstud]

@broberg @retroflex

FIXED!!!

For anyone that has the same issue I was able to fix it by doing the following steps:

1. Follow this article’s step to download and create font-config
   https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-color-emoji-linux-google-chrome-noto

2. Unzip folder from Raspberry Pi’s Download Folder

3. Open Terminal and type the following:
   cp *.ttf ~/.fonts/
   fc-cache -v -f

4. Reboot Raspberry Pi

5. Verify that you can see emoji (https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html)

[lilpkstud]

These were the articles that helped me the most

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-color-emoji-linux-google-chrome-noto

https://raspberrytips.com/install-fonts-raspberry-pi/

https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html